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 ...

28 Cool & Surprising Black History Facts for Every Day of the Month Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman is the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license. Of course, her path to that achievement is ...

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 ...

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 ...