ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - Paul’s Valley native Erma Willis-Alford found her passion to serve others while helping care for sick ...

The Children's Bureau was particularly interested in educating nurse-midwives to oversee and replace the apprentice-educated "granny," who was still delivering a large number of African American ...

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 ...

Photo: Getty Images Memorial Day began in the mid-1800s as a way to honor the people who died in the American Civil War. The ...

Retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. Leftenant-Colon died ...

As an African American, Christian ordained minister, and nurse practitioner I am able to understand and help others find the balance they seek to bring about wholeness. I have over 6 years of ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of ... “She knew she was destined to become a nurse — she was named after two aunts who were nurses,” her daughter ...

Provident Hospital offered training to African American interns and established ... where she was a nurse, for the walk home. His exposure to doctors of all races in the emergency room sparked ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

Frank E. Peterson Jr. Hazel Johnson-Brown, First African American Female General in the US Army Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown was a nurse and educator who served with the U.S. Army from 1955-1983.