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The nurse later co-led a successful campaign to erect a statue of Mary Seacole in June 2016. This was the first named memorial statue of a black woman in the UK. "I can still remember it," she ...
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has been nominated at the Caribbean and African ...
A new Royal Mint coin in honour of a 19th-century Jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers is the first to feature a named black woman from outside the UK.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A wreath laying in Birmingham Monday evening honored the first Black registered nurse in the state of Alabama: Pauline Bray Fletcher. The Birmingham Black Nurses ...
A 19th-century Jamaican nurse will become the first Black woman from outside the UK ever featured on a Royal Mint coin.
Register columnist: Lance Eddins' mother was the first Black woman to graduate from a Des Moines nursing school. He set up a scholarship in her honor.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.
It was early in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered nurse to be hired in East Feliciana Parish, she said.
Tarrant County and Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital observing the upcoming Juneteenth holiday by honoring the city's first Black nurse.
The sculpture of the half-Jamaican and half-Scottish nurse, believed to be the UK's first in honour of a named Black woman, was unveiled in 2016 with an inscription by The Times' Crimean War ...
Nurses of color say they are looking forward to action after an official apology from the nation’s largest nursing association for its history of racist practices that disenfranchised nurses of ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon passed away at 104 after serving as the first Black woman in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation.