The ghetto life — typically poor, predominantly black neighborhoods — have become microcosms of racial tensions and social injustice. There is nearly 1.5 million Black youth in the U.S. living in areas considered “statistically high risk” for social, economic, and cultural failure. For Black youth living in urban ghettos across the country, their experience with racism is more than just […]
First Black Woman Aviator in America
In 1915, at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a manicurist. Not long after her move to Chicago, she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots, which sparked her interest in aviation. First Black Woman Aviator—Bessie Coleman In 1922, a time of both gender and racial […]