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Black Nurse Entrepreneurs (BNE), founded by visionary nurse entrepreneur Alvionna Brewster, MSN-Ed, RN, in 2015, has recently grown its dynamic community to more than 23,000 African American ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned ... Leftenant-Colon applied for regular Army Nurse Corps status and became the first Black woman integrated into the Corps.
Ann became the first African American woman to serve on a Union military vessel and was one of the first women ever to openly serve as a nurse in the U.S. Navy. She was one of five African ...
Akron General Cleveland Clinic honored a special nurse today for #NationalNursesWeek 🩺 … and get this, she was the 1ST African-American woman hired to the clinic, in the 1940s! 🩹 pic ...
In response to the lack of access to essential health services within the Black-American population, Gillard has found her life’s calling in serving patients from her community.
Segregation separated some but brought others together and these women were some of the first African American nurses to work at BRGH. Although these nurses have been honored before, they say the ...
When we consider African-American achievement in the military names we think of General Benjamin O. Davis, the Tuskegee Airmen, and General Colin Powell. For decades there have been efforts to ...
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 ...