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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. p pulse Follow In the 1950s, when women were relegated to housework, either in marriage or as domestics, Stringfield ...

Newly elected North Miami Beach Mayor Michael Joseph speaks after being sworn in during a ceremony at the Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in North Miami Beach, Fla.

The Motorcycle Queen of Miami is finally getting her due. If you're already a motorcycle rider, you don't need me to tell you how good it feels. You already know. But if you're not, and you've been ...

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 ...