The world of flight has no shortage of legendary names, some of which have gone under-explored for far too long. On today's episode, we're thrusting one such figure, Bessie Coleman, into the limelight, and asking how she used her unique identity as the first woman-of-color pilot to lift up fellow Black people at a critical point in their race's history.
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