Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

Furey, 78, is featured in the fourth hour of Apple TV+'s "Vietnam: The War That Changed America, " a six-parter that drops ...

A pediatric nurse who worked tenaciously to expand access to health services, Loretta Ford helped to transform the way millions of Americans receive health care.

She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, ...

Dr. Ford, an Army Air Forces nurse during World War II who later obtained a doctorate ... to a handful of registered nurses who became the first nurse practitioners. The program initially was ...

Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...

Leftenant, who had served as a fighter pilot — one of the Tuskegee Airmen — during World War II ... Bronx at the Lincoln School for Nurses, one of the first nursing schools open to African ...

Here are stories from Louisiana First News’ “Honoring Black History” special highlighting Black business, culture and history.

She had first tried to enlist in 1941 ... She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of a total of 50,000 — a result of government caps that kept thousands more ...

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic ... more than 350,000 nurse practitioners in America; it is one of the fastest growing fields, and last year U.S. News and World Report ranked ...

A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New York this weekend.