Phyllis Green’s milestone of becoming the first woman to clear five feet in the high jump is not as celebrated as the likes ...

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has been nominated at the Caribbean and African ...

Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

National Nurses Week offers opportunity to recognize 5 Black nurses whose resilience and innovation shaped healthcare despite facing profound discrimination.

Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first Black woman to graduate from a nursing program; throughout her career, she worked to provide other Black women the opportunity to follow in her footsteps.

Hundreds of Black nurses gathered in Washington for The National Black Nurses Association's (NBNA) 37th annual 'National Black Nurses Day on Capitol Hill.' ...

Retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black nurse to serve in the U.S. military and a native of Goose Creek, died on Jan. 8 at age 104. (Provided) Her family calls her a “trailblazer” who ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a ...

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.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon passed away at 104 after serving as the first Black woman in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation.

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.