Every year, the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s group of young professional supporters chooses a theme for the shindig based on a classic book found on the library’s shelves. This year, that choice was ...

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 ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

the first Black state senator to represent Long Island in the governing body’s 247-year history. In Albany she will represent ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton University’s nursing program stands as a beacon of resilience and dedication. Its rich history is ...

The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation ... A hospital that only accepted white mothers at the time rejected the Black mother of that premature ...

She did go on to break something later — the color barrier in the field of nursing in her ... not wanting to hire a black woman. She was told that she was in “a white person’s field ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

You vote for the choice that's going to do the least amount of harm to you, knowing how white voters are going to behave.” ...

Volunteering brings many rewards, including new friends, community engagement and, for Casey Johnson, a career mission.

In the first national study of urinary incontinence among assisted living residents, New York researchers found that the condition significantly increased the probability of those residents being ...