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Ann became the first African American woman to serve on a Union military vessel and was one of the first women ever to openly serve as a nurse in the U.S. Navy. She was one of five African ...

When we consider African-American achievement in the military names we think of General Benjamin O. Davis, the Tuskegee Airmen, and General Colin Powell. For decades there have been efforts to ...

Ty Roberts started her nonprofit after a difficult birth experience inspired her to become a doula. Now, she helps more women ...

“Some programs—like Women’s Studies, African American/Black Studies ... in these programs as in Electrical Engineering or Registered Nurse programs.” Graduating more students from high ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum is hosting a program March 27, celebrating the achievements of women with African descent this Women's History Month.

A fraction of them are African American women. While the need to recognize ... intelligence operative, nurse, strategist and spy for the Union Army. In fact, she was the first American woman ...

White women have been the primary beneficiaries of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, which were designed to help several marginalized groups, including religious minorities and veterans.

Four remarkable Iowans were inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of ... the computer age," according to the American Association of University Women branch in Ames. She received 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 ...