A 1,000-year-old food cache has been discovered in Alaska, a site that once allowed Indigenous populations to store their food for future use. The flag of the United states of America has many rules ...

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

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KAMPALA, Uganda — A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed away earlier this month at a ...

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 ...

During her first year at Lincoln, she came across a magazine photo of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform, black cape flowing behind her,” Maj.

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... allowed to eat in whites-only restaurants, even in her uniform. When she was traveling through one Southern city ...

Her family calls her a “trailblazer” who persevered after initially having her application for military service turned down because the military was not accepting Black nurses. In 1945, she was ...

Being a woman who served as a combat nurse in Vietnam, it took years for Diane Carlson Evans to see the same recognition as her weapon-wielding counterparts. But thanks to her advocacy work, the ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...