The National Black Nurses Association's 37th Annual Black Nurses Day on Capitol Hill focused on addressing systemic health disparities and promoting health equity in Black communities.

While we are celebrating Black History Month, I thought I would write about the history of Muslims who came to the United States. Enslaved African Muslims brought Islam to the United States in the ...

Official statistics have also shown around one in five white prisoners ... uses a so-called “black book” hitlist to take out opponents. By using contraband phones, Muslim gangs have shared ...

After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S ... traveling through one Southern city, a white woman spit in her face.

(AP) — 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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New York this weekend. Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, died on Jan. 8 at 104 years ...

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, and a native of Goose Creek, South Carolina. Nancy Leftenant-Colon ...

(US Air Force Historical Support Office via AP) This 1940’s family handout photograph shows retired U.S. Army Nurse Corps Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon, at center. Leftenant-Colon, who was the first ...

This late 1940's photo provided by the US Air Force Historical Support Office shows retired U.S. Army Nurse Corps Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon. (US Air Force Historical Support Office via AP) ...