Today, as we celebrate Aviation Day and Black Business Month, we remember Bessie Coleman as a woman who invested in herself, built her way into a field that rejected her, and imagined a future where other Black people could take flight too. There was a time when the sky was considered a man's territory. For a Black woman, the idea of becoming a pilot was almost unthinkable. Bessie Coleman thought otherwise. Born in 1892 in Texas, Bessie grew up in a large family where hard wo
