Shantell Williams: Shut Up & Ride
Rock Stars of Aging • 6m 49s
Shantell Williams learned how to ride a Harley in her 40s. Eight months after she started, she set out on a journey across 48 states to bring attention to Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to ride across America in the 1930s. That ride not only broke a world record but also showed Shantell she could “change people’s attitudes about race and build friends of all colors along the way.”
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