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

She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II ... not allowed to eat in whites-only restaurants, even in her uniform. When she was traveling through one Southern city, a ...

During her first year at Lincoln, she came across a magazine photo of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform, black cape flowing behind her,” Maj.

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"The last thing he said before passing was, 'I should have finished the job of drowning her and burning down the house.'" ...

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put that uniform on and did what she had to do,” Gilda Leftenant said. “She loved taking care of people.” Leftenant-Colon became the first Black woman to be admitted to the Army Nurse Corps ...

A host of tributes across America recognize the achievements of pioneering Black union leader A. Philip Randolph — his ...

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Speaking Tuesday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106, Claudette Clarke Waugh, President of the Enrolled Nurses Association, said the nurses will continue their protest with the hope that the regional ...

As for the Relf sisters, they received nothing. No damages, no financial compensation. Alabama offered nothing to those who ...