Black nurses’ contributions to healthcare and to society as a whole have often been undervalued and hidden. As a result, many ...

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

High school seniors in New England from historically underserved populations can apply for the Mary Eliza Mahoney Scholarship if they are members of the New England Regional Black Nurses Association ...

After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Hundreds of Black nurses gathered in Washington, D.C. Thursday for the National Black Nurses Association's (NBNA) 37th annual 'National Black Nurses Day on Capitol Hill.' ...

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 ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

The Colorado Council of Black Nurses Inc. Aerospace Nursing Department is continuing to research the best ways to provide ...

It was early in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered nurse to be hired in East Feliciana Parish, she said. It was 1975 ...