On July 10, 1893, Black surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams at Provident Hospital in Chicago successfully sutured a cardiac wound—a groundbreaking open‑heart procedure.

In 1893, Chicago surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery. In 1943, U.S., Canadian and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II.

Cornish likely didn’t know that the hospital was created by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, the son of a barber, born in 1858 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Someone who should be lauded in our ...

POWHATAN – When invited to come and speak to Pocahontas Middle School students in recognition of Black History Month, special guest speaker Dr. Delmar P. Wright said he had any ...

"I want to be a beacon of hope for this community." She outfitted second and third graders from Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School with new jackets Wednesday morning inside the school's library.

In 1893, Chicago surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery. Troops from the 51st Highland Division unload stores from tank landing craft on during the Allied ...

In 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a pioneering Black surgeon, performed the first successful suture of a human heart and pericardium at Provident Hospital in Chicago.

Wyatt said blinking red lights are problematic at busier intersections like 19th Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive near Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School.

The documentary opens with narrator Bill Cosby discussing contributions that African Americans have made to American Life, such as Norbert Rillieux's contributions to refining sugar; Jan Ernst ...