She currently holds a seat as the chairperson of the Black Nurses Matter Network, is the chief organizer of The Chicago Nurse Expo, and a member of the Chicago Chapter Black Nurses Association.

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 ...

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 ...

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. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

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 ...