She has happy memories of a wonderful carefree rural childhood playing in the fields, streams and on the common ...

In January 2019, the Amityville School District paid tribute to Nancy Leftenant-Colon, renaming the high school’s media ...

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

Will is a captain in the U.S. Army and had been deployed to Lithuania. When he was able to come home, his first stop was the ...

Known for quietly breaking barriers during her remarkable military career, Leftenant-Colon enjoyed a legacy of resilience, ...

serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for the sick and injured as a flight nurse in the Air Force, died Jan. 8 at a nursing home in Amityville ...

Known as 'The Dare Devils', the Motorcycle Rider Display Team of the Army's Corps of Signals showcased their exceptional skills, indomitable courage and teamwork and attempted to set two world ...

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order desegregating the armed forces. It was the ...

Being a woman who served as a combat nurse in Vietnam, it took years for Diane Carlson Evans to see the same recognition as her weapon-wielding counterparts. But thanks to her advocacy work, the ...

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 ...

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 ...