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 ...

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, and a native of Goose Creek.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Area Black Nurses Association held its second annual Mini Nurse Academy at General George G. Meade School in North Philly.

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 ...

She never made a big thing of it. It was just happening.” After the military was desegregated in 1948, Leftenant-Colon initially joined the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, as a nurse.

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