Black nurses’ contributions to healthcare and to society as a whole have often been undervalued and hidden. As a result, many ...

She kept trying, and in 1945, with the flow of wounded servicemen from overseas combat near its peak, she was accepted into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during ...

When Betty Smith Williams, DrPH, RN (NUR '54) became the first black student to earn her nursing credentials from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, she already had activism in her veins. Her ...

The Colorado Council of Black Nurses Inc. Aerospace Nursing Department is continuing to research the best ways to provide ...

"The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" sheds light on a crucial aspect of medical history that had long been overlooked: the significant contributions of ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...