Bessie Coleman was the pioneering first African American woman to earn a pilot's certificate (in 1921 in France), overcoming significant racial and gender discrimination in the U.S. to achieve her ...

Last week, the United States Mint unveiled the five women who will appear on quarters in 2023 as part of the four-year series celebrating women’s contributions to American history. Next year’s diverse ...

Bessie Coleman wanted more out of life. Her parents were sharecroppers in rural Texas, and she had spent her childhood picking cotton and doing laundry for white people. It was 1915. Opportunities ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman, who earned nicknames such as "Brave Bessie" and "Queen Bessie," spent her life teaching others about aviation, ...

To honor the legacy of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, American Airlines operated a flight earlier this month from DFW International Airport to Phoenix with a crew of ...

Bessie Coleman (Jan. 26, 1892–April 30, 1926) was a bravely independent and determined woman who decided that learning to fly provided an exciting challenge. However, in the early years of the 20th ...

Stemming from Parsons’s Sweet Blackberry series of animated films featuring Black heroes, this biography introduces Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot’s license, ...

There’s a new landing ground for this late pioneer, and its part of Mattel’s Inspiring Women doll series. Bessie Coleman, the first Black, Native American female aviator and first Black person to earn ...

Bessie Coleman’s legacy is still alive–so much that Barbie is releasing a Bessie Coleman Inspiring Women doll. This comes ahead of the late aviatrix's birthday, which is Jan. 26, and Black History ...

Bessie Coleman stands with her aircraft in 1922. [Courtesy: UCLA Library Digital Collections/Wikimedia Commons] When you ask someone about famous women from the early days of aviation, they will ...

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 ...