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 ...

DENVER — As NASA moves forward with it’s Artemis Program, which has a goal of developing ways to build a colony on the moon, the Colorado Council of Black ... nurses that do flight for life, that’s ...

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

U.S. Air Force Col. Allison Black, known as the "Angel of Death," earned her name during the early days of the Afghanistan ...

She did go on to break something later — the color barrier in the field ... in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered ...

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing ... Her fiance was killed in combat in 1942, inspiring ...

“Their personal examples of service, sacrifice and combat effectiveness ... from a field of 4,000 who had meticulous flight training by Chief Charles A. Anderson (the Father of Black Aviation ...

Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.

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