In response to the lack of access to essential health services within the Black-American population, Gillard has found her life’s calling in serving patients from her community.

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

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 ...

Father made request after he found nurse Tonya Battle caring for the ... of honoring of a swastika-tattooed man's request that African-American nurses not care for his newborn.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...