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 ...

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 ...

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.' ...

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 ...