Who wants to go first? Everyone sits there quietly. Most of us are intrigued but terrified actually to be the first. Why are so many of us afraid of the unknown and the uncharted? Sally Ride nailed it ...

If daring and determined were a person, they might resemble the spirit of Black travel history maker Bessie Stringfield. In 1930, the self-taught motorcyclist became the first African American woman ...

Her name may not be well known, but Bessie Stringfield’s prowess and bravado on a motorcycle are legendary. Stringfield taught herself to ride a motorcycle as a teen. She went on to become the first ...

A story about a girl who proves she can ride faster than a group of dismissive boys introduces readers to Bessie Stringfield, an African-American motorcyclist active in the 1930s and ’40s. The ...

It’s hard to say if Bessie Stringfield went wherever the wind told her or if she made the wind bend to her will. Known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami,” Stringfield was the first Black woman to ride ...

The women bikers came roaring down Interstate I-95. Black women, some 200 strong. Motors blaring and screaming sirens escorting the bikers as they exited at Northwest 27th Avenue in Miami Gardens. The ...

View post: Honda Just Dropped 2025 Pilot’s November Lease Deals Families Can’t Ignore During the Jim Crow era, a time when Black Americans were segregated based on the color of their skin, a young ...

Beatnik Entertainment helps to celebrate Women’s History Month with the world premiere of a play about a pioneer who traveled the United States on her Harley-Davidson in the 1930s and 1940s. Bonnie ...

A motorcade of nearly 300 female bikers has left Daytona and is en route to Miami to honor a famous motorcycle matriarch: Bessie B. Stringfield, the Motorcycle Queen of Miami. On Friday morning, ...

If you were to read the list of places Bessie Stringfield rode to, and number of miles she racked up, you would be impressed if it had been done in the 1980s. Bessie, though, pulled it off long before ...