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 ...

He was questioned at the time after some of his DNA was found at the scene, but he told police he had been in the flat in the past as he knew a previous occupant. Samples taken from the victim showed ...

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

Quarter finals day at SW19 saw Queen Camilla enjoying an afternoon of tennis, alongside the King's nephew Peter Phillips and ...

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 ...

As the cost of tuition rises, a growing number of students are turning to platforms like GoFundMe to raise funds for ...

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

In the 1960s, Thereasea Clark Elder joined the Mecklenburg County Health Department where she was the first and only Black nurse after serving in WWII.

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.' ...