Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

Final game before 4 Nations break offers fans the opportunity to celebrate the history, contributions and accomplishments of Black Canadians in Oil Country ...

(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 ...

Margo Brooks Carthon, who led research finding that Black patients are more sensitive to poorer nurse staffing rates than their white counterparts and that Black patients were disproportionately ...

Brian Goldman, host of White Coat, Black Art. Canadian Josh Booth, another certified registered nurse anesthetist, works in the Detroit area at William Beaumont University Hospital. (Submitted ...

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.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in ...

The deplorable actions of a NICU nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, against Black infants may have racist undertones. Erin Strotman, a nurse at Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital’s neonatal ...

Black history is American history. It honors our past, present and future. NEPM is committed to sharing programs this month — ...

Author Maria Smilios chronicles the history of Sea View’s nurses in her book Black Angels. According to Smilios, while isolating sick patients away from the public ultimately cut infection rates, the ...

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 ...