Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the first Native American woman pilot in aviation history. Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas on January 26 ...

Powell, who made history in 2022 when she led an all-Black female flight ... Powell on these two amazing projects that honor my Aunt Bessie’s legacy,” Gigi Coleman said. The film will also ...

February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Bessie Coleman was ...

For a number of years starting in 1931, black pilots from Chicago instituted an annual fly over of her grave. In 1977 a group of African American women pilots established the Bessie Coleman ...

Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921 American Airlines is saluting Bessie Coleman with an All-Black female crew! On Friday, American Airlines celebrated ...