Bessie Coleman’s legacy is still alive–so much that Barbie is releasing a Bessie Coleman Inspiring Women doll. This comes ahead of the late aviatrix’s birthday, which is Jan. 26, and Black History ...

It’s been over 100 years since Bessie Coleman took her first public flight in the U.S., and now she is finally getting the recognition she deserves. This month, American Airlines celebrated the 100th ...

In her latest role, Queen Latifah adopts the persona of a 20th century legend. Our Mark Strassmann met up with her for some Questions-and-Answers: At 45, Queen Latifah is playing a part she was first ...

The Oscar-nominated actress will play Bessie Smith in the upcoming HBO Film Queen Latifah is bringing back the blues. The Oscar nominee, 45, will pay tribute to Bessie Smith – the so-called Empress of ...

Whenever Bessie Smith? sang, she ­bellowed. Whenever she walked, she ­strutted. HBO's decades-in-the-making biopic, Bessie, renders the legendary blueswoman's sheer audacity in several magnetic… By ...

Queen Latifah had us glued to our televisions Saturday night, thanks to her powerful performance as 1920s blues legend Bessie Smith in HBO's biopic Bessie. And if there was one thing that rang clearer ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman, who earned nicknames such as "Brave Bessie" and "Queen Bessie," spent her life teaching others about aviation, ...

reporting from NEW YORK — Queen Latifah was a young rapper just beginning to dabble in acting when she was first approached about the possibility of playing the lead in a film about singer Bessie ...

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on ...

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 ...

I love Bessie Higgenbottom, Nickelodeon’s newest super hero – well, aspiring super hero, at any rate. But, in the interest of full disclosure, I have a personal stake in seeing Bessie succeed. No, I ...

It's amazing what the right woman can do, given the chance. That's a good thing, too, because HBO's Bessie, writer/director Dee Rees's biography of blues giant Bessie Smith (Saturday, 8 ET/PT; * * * ½ ...