Langston University President Ruth Ray Jackson's investiture was held Friday, with Jackson calling it "a reflection of our ...

Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they gathered in Florida’s capitol on Thursday to honor the life and legacy of Democratic state Sen. Geraldine Thompson.

The Fly Oz Club invited the great-niece of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license, to tell Bessie's story during their Women of Aviation Week at Thaden Field in ...

Powell says the documentary and book projects allow her to 'join the ranks of those passionately bringing her legacy to a ...

the son of slaves who became the first Black general in the U.S. Army; and Bessie Coleman, the first Black pilot to earn an international license and fly around the world. Then, Tutwiler’s photo ...

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 ...

It might have been a short month, but there was no shortage of headlines in Chicago and Illinois this month. Test your news knowledge with our monthly news quiz ...

The museum also featured the inspiring stories of pioneers like Eugene Bullard, the first African American fighter pilot, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's ...

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 ...

We wanted a mix of figures, some well known, some not so well known. We wanted folks like [aviator] Bessie Coleman and the Tuskegee Airmen. And then we also chose figures like [Jean-Michel ...

"But can I blame them? They've only been taught the same two figures their whole (lives)," she said, listing influential figures like Madam C.J. Walker, Bessie Coleman, Phillis Wheatley ...