As the Games close, we reflect on how the athletes are like modern ascetics. Through commitment and sacrifice, they achieve a ...

This year audiences will be able to go to the movies and see the story of a trailblazing, brave Navy aviator and his heroics in combat. It’s not Top Gun: Maverick, but a new movie about a real-life ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director J.D. Dillard about his new movie "Devotion." It's about the trust built between a Black pilot and his wingman as they fight in the Korean War. "Devotion" is a ...

The filmmaker, who has a family connection to the aviation world, has never felt so deeply on a film set: "it was heavy in a way that has forever changed me." By Brian Davids Writer For Dillard, it ...

Jesse Brown was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1926 to a family of sharecroppers, according to Naval History and Heritage Command. He was a school athlete and excelled in his studies. Brown ...

JD Dillard doesn’t run on adrenaline; he runs on jet fuel. For the director of “Sleight” and “Sweetheart,” the new film “Devotion” — the thrilling, urgent story of Black Korean War aviator Jesse Brown ...

The filmmaker writes about his mother and father, the latter being a former naval flight officer, visiting him on the set of the film starring Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell. By JD Dillard The text ...

Father Lawrence Carney was ordained for the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, on May 26, 2007. He is a street preacher, parish missionary and retreat and conference director, as well as being the director ...