She began her nursing career in 1966 as the first African-American nurse at Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma, now known as Mercy Health in Ardmore, where she provided care to patients in ...

Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and ho ...

ARDMORE, Okla. (KTEN) — Erma Willis-Alford was the first Black registered nurse to serve at Mercy Hospital in Ardmore. As a ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

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A New York nurse who scammed a federal loan forgiveness ... 44, of Elmsford, at a White Plains federal court hearing in addition to a term of three years post-release supervision.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed away earlier this month at a ...

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 ...