Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

About 30 parents and students protested outside the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies on Thursday morning, demanding the district reverse its plans to close the school’s seventh and ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Students are still waiting to find out where they will be going to school next month after Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies informed parents this week that ...

She was only 34 when she died but during her brief life, Bessie Coleman made a stand against both racial and gender prejudice by becoming the first African-American woman to successfully train as ...

But this wasn’t someone she sat with at school. In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of ...

The Evanston Skokie School District already planned to close Bessie Rhodes Magnet School at the end of the school year. Parents and students in seventh and eighth grade, however, have now been ...

A 5-2 vote sealed the fate of the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies Monday night after the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education voted to close the district’s lone fully ...

Landscape painter Arthur Streeton ruled Australian art auctions in 2021, commanding the highest price for the year and taking out four of the top 11 sales.

In an Oct. 16 letter that came as a shock to parents of students at Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Superintendent Angel Turner announced that the ...