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 ...

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 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.

Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first integrated hospital, a haven where ...

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.

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, 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.

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 ...

A nurse who helped dying soldiers in the Crimean War has been voted the greatest black Briton. Mary Seacole topped the list of 100 prominent black figures after a three-month survey that attracted 100 ...

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