High school seniors in New England from historically underserved populations can apply for the Mary Eliza Mahoney Scholarship if they are members of the New England Regional Black Nurses Association ...

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

Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

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. It was 1975 ...

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

After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon became the first African-American woman to serve in the desegregated Regular Army Nurse Corps. (CAF RISE ABOVE) Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U ...

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

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 ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Who Was the First Black Woman in Army Nurse Corps, Has Died The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died.