About this episode

Shantell Williams shares her inspiring journey of learning to ride a Harley and setting a world record in honor of Bessie Stringfield.

She learned to ride a Harley in her 40s. Eight months later, she rode it solo across all 48 contiguous states, something no one had ever done alone. On this episode of “Is That How It Happened?”, I sit down with Shantell Williams. Mother of ten. Restaurant owner. Singer. And, by her own description, a badass biker chick who set a world record to honor a woman most of America had never heard of: Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to ride across the country, back in the 1930s....

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