Stolen truck leaves African Immigrant Family Services struggling to help families in need
The truck donated to the African Immigrant Family Services was more than just a motor and wheels. It played a vital role in ...
Baltimore Times2 天
Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum Honors Harriet Tubman Through Museum Renaming
Efforts to acknowledge the contributions of African Americans are intertwined with illuminating cultural preservation milestones. For example, The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, located at 84 ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, barrier-breaking military nurse, dies at 104
In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.
The Vicksburg Post3 天
UNSUNG HEROES: On the trail of the U.S. Colored Troops in Vicksburg
By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...
insider.si.edu3 天
National Museum of African American History and Culture Celebrates Black History Month
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates Black History Month with a ...
Richmond5 天
Ashland Museum will offer program on African American Cemeteries
The Ashland Museum has rescheduled the HistoryTalks presentation on Research and Restoration at African American Cemeteries for Sunday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. in Brock Commons Truist Theater, 304 Henry ...
The Street Journal8 天
US accuses Sudan’s military forces of using chemical weapons on militants
The Streetjournal Magazine is an online investigating media house that specializes on systematic, serious crimes, political ...
Stars and Stripes9 天
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104
Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...
The past, present
The group went to the departmental archives in Périgueux, where they found only one record which contained Yvette’s surname — ...
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First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, ...
The PIE News18 天
German language barrier stalls African nurse recruitment
The age limit has been set at 29 years, while the duration for the preparatory certificate course will be 14 weeks. While there are still plans to extend the program to other East African countries, ...