Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If daring and determined were a person, they might resemble the spirit of Black travel history maker Bessie Stringfield. In 1930, ...

During the Jim Crow era, a time when Black Americans were segregated based on the color of their skin, a young Bessie Stringfield set out to explore the open road with her motorcycle. Little did she ...

City of Miami Gardens Councilwoman Michelle Powell with members of Sunshine D.I.M.E lady motorcycle squad at the newly unveiled street sign honoring famous motorcyclist Bessie Stringfield at NW 24th ...

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 ...

She made eight solo journeys around the United States back when relatively few women were riding motorcycles. Thirty years after her death, more and more of her story is coming to light. Bessie ...

Bessie Stringfield was, by all accounts, a woman of many lives. Her origin story remains murky, but what is well known is her prowess on her famed Harley motorcycles, which she rode throughout Florida ...

Somewhere between myth, memory and motorcycles, Bessie B. Stringfield was great. Her legend was big enough to warrant a posthumous induction into the Hall of Fame of the American Motorcyclist ...

This is the first film about Black motorcycle trailblazer, Bessie Stringfield. Stringfield was the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle across the United States - a feat she accomplished in 1930 at ...

Wind gusts were fierce in Miami Gardens Wednesday afternoon – a fitting allegory for a tribute to Bessie Stringfield, the first Black woman to ride cross country in the United States on her motorcycle ...