Hundreds of Black nurses gathered in Washington for The National Black Nurses Association's (NBNA) 37th annual 'National ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.