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 ...

Bessie Stringfield was the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle solo across the United States. She made eight cross-country trips during the Jim Crow era, often facing racism and prejudice.

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