Fly like Bessie

Leaning into community and honoring history so we don’t repeat it.

Bessie Coleman (1892 - 1926) was the first female African-American and also Native American pilot in the United States. (She got her license two years before Amelia Earhart.) I knew the name because there is a street near O’Hare International Airport that bears her name: Bessie Coleman Drive. Gigi Coleman is her grand-niece who dazzled a packed audience…