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

Cedar Valley Faces of Excellence will hold its annual Baccalaureate Ceremony at 4 p.m. Sunday at Antioch Baptist Church, 426 Sumner St.

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 ...

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 ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day celebrations was held by Black people to honor those who died in the Civil War. Here, we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An emergency room nurse dons personal protective equipment ... In the nation’s capital, 81 percent of the fatalities have been African American, according the mayor’s website, in a city ...

Bridget Saffold, a registered nurse in Waterloo ... diabetes patients and raising awareness of the disease. The Iowa African American Hall of Fame was founded in 1995 by the Connect Foundation ...