Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first black professional nurse in America, and an active organizer among African American nurses. She was born in Boston, on May 7, 1845, the oldest of three children.

Alvionna Brewster is the driving force behind the Black Nurse Entrepreneurs (BNE) group, a community dedicated to supporting African-American nurses. Founded in 2015, BNE has grown to include over ...

In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

The Children's Bureau was particularly interested in educating nurse-midwives to oversee and replace the apprentice-educated "granny," who was still delivering a large number of African American ...

One of the most complex relationships was the one that existed between white children and their African American caretakers ... This picture, of slave nurse Louisa and her charge, H.

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 ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in ...