Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They can be seen tearing down the FDR Drive in New York City, wind whipping past as they fill all three lanes with nary a car in ...

This is one of photographer Alvin Jacobs’ motorcycles, featured in the "Black Behind Bars" exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art and Culture. Jacobs took the photos for the ...

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.

Her name may not be well known, but Bessie Stringfield’s prowess and bravado on a motorcycle are legendary. Stringfield taught herself to ride a motorcycle as a teen. She went on to become the first ...

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On a sunny day in June, Vanessa Robertson mounted her Can-Am Spyder ST limited and pulled into a TA truck stop on West South Boulevard in Montgomery flashing her colors: a starched long-sleeved yellow ...

Bill “Hard Luck” Jones sat near the track at the Atlanta Motordrome, reading his Bible, one Sunday morning in late October 1913. Jones, one of the best Black motorcycle racers in the South, was ...