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 winners of the Black History Month art contest at Southside High were recognized for their exemplary art skills on Tuesday, March 4. Each showed off their work, which included numerous mediums.

VALERIE, YOU WERE AS THEY ARE SETTING UP THEIR EVENTS. TODAY IS BESSIE COLEMAN DAY. SHE'S THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN TO HOLD A PILOTS LICENSE THE FLY OZ CLUB AT ...

Discovering Bessie Coleman and the biography, Queen of the Skies. Powell, who made history in 2022 when she led an all-Black female flight crew as a commercial airline captain, is honored to share ...

Discovering Bessie Coleman and the biography, Queen of the Skies. Powell, who made history in 2022 when she led an all-Black female flight crew as a commercial airline captain, is honored to share ...

the son of slaves who became the first Black general in the U.S. Army; and Bessie Coleman, the first Black ... For Belchertown’s 2025 Black History Month event, Tutwiler asked the audience ...

All month long, CBS Chicago is highlighting stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor. Join us as we share portraits of the life and times of some ...

Let’s look skyward for a little bit of inspiration before Black ... Coleman was buried in Lincoln Cemetery and for several years pilots dropped floral tributes to her from the sky. Bessie ...

Let’s look skyward for a little bit of inspiration before Black History Month concludes ... Here are their inspiring stories. Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot ...

on Jan. 28, 2025. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune) The Red Wing School District has canceled a Black History Month event featuring Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison due ...

(WBMA) — In honor of Black History Month ... the first African American fighter pilot, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license. Curator Randy Law explained ...

Note: A previous version of this story ran in December 2023. In the 1920s and ’30s, Chicago was home for the burgeoning Black aviation community, a place of opportunity that was central to Black ...