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AURN, in partnership with Flying Free Films, premieres an original, WGA scripted podcast series, “Invisible Eagles: Bessie Coleman," starring Oscar-nominated Quvenzhané Wallis as Bessie. Designed as an eight-episode EVENT, this ‘made for podcast’ project gives a dramatic account of America’s first Black female pilot. Invisible Eagles: Bessie Coleman takes us around the world, from America to Europe and Africa, during the 1920’s and 1930’s. It’s a time of the Great Depression, new technology, two world wars, and the horrors of Jim Crow. This podcast will keep you guessing about ...

Based on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn her pilot's license. Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail with her plane . . . Before she performed in death-defying flying shows that...

A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men—Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago’s first Black bank.

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