At age 23, Virginia Mickens had a master’s degree and a job as a nurse manager at a VA hospital in New York City. It was the late 1970s. Many Black nurses worked there. They respected her and ...

On Monday, surrounded by loved ones and former colleagues, Margaret Taylor was celebrated as the first Black nurse in the City of Arlington. Taylor grew up in segregated Arlington, she rode the ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Kara James is a Planned Parenthood nurse practitioner on a mission to save Black women's lives. Her fight for Black women started as a young Black girl, fighting for ...

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 earlier this ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A nurse from Philadelphia recently became the first Black player to compete in the U.S. Women's Polo Championship. Shariah Harris started riding at Philadelphia's Work to ...

BOULDER, Colo. — In 1946, Zipporah “Zippy” Parks Hammond made history by becoming the first Black woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder's (CU ...

Shawntay Harris, a nurse from Killeen, Texas, made history as the first Black woman inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nurses. According to local station KXXV, Harris started her nursing ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

She kept trying, and in January 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant. Black nurses were still prohibited from joining the regular Army ...