Join The Flourish Collective for a conversation with author Carole Hopson about her debut novel, A Pair of Wings — a richly imagined story inspired by the true life of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman's journey from Texas cotton fields to the skies of France, where she trained after being turned away in the U.S., is a story of determination, migration, and the search for freedom against the backdrop of Jim Crow-era America. Hopson, herself a Boeing 737 captain who considers Coleman a personal trailblazer, brings both a pilot's insight and a novelist's craft to this celebration of Bessie's legacy. Come for the story, stay for the conversation with the woman who lived it forward.