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 ...

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.

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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 ...