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 ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

she moved to France to enroll in flight school. 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 ...