The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.

Chris Roark, croark@cherryroad.com The Waxahachie City Council on Monday approved a site plan and developers agreement for a ...

While the Tuskegee Airmen have become icons in the history of American aviation, fewer people know the story of Bessie ...

Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how it should ... Johnson, clarinetists Benny Goodman and Buster Bailey, guitarist Eddie Lang, saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Don Redman, and the ...

Aviation trailblazer Captain Beth Powell, founder of Queen B Production LLC, has released a documentary trailer and book biography in collaboration with the family of Bessie Coleman, the first ...

Here are their inspiring stories. Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot an airplane, and, she claimed, the first Black woman aviator. A manicurist in Chicago before taking ...

Bessie Coleman was the first black woman pilot to fight racism and sexism to earn her license in 1921 inspiring future aviators worldwide. Thanks to Jada Carson, a 12th grader at Airline High ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Bessie Coleman was an ambitious young woman, inspired by Black pilots in World War I. Her accomplishments inspired generations of women and girls aspiring to become pilots.

Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman. It was a time when women were discouraged from working outside domestic spheres, and opportunities for ...

Buffalo Bills rookie wide receiver Keon Coleman has had a strong start to his 2024 campaign, but things didn't go according to plan in his team's 30-27 win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.

Katie Holmes took to Instagram to share a joyful new photo of herself as she opened up about feeling supported and loved ...

“I just had to find my own way to get to flight school, kind of like Bessie.” Hopson knows that her own challenges cannot compare to Coleman’s. The pioneering pilot, born in 1892 in ...