National Nurses United says African American nurses make up 12% of the workforce in the U.S. but account for 18% of deaths among nurses due to COVID-19.Denise Meyers, ...

But in January, the Trump administration rescinded former President Joe Biden’s 2021 policy that protected health care ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Baton Rouge General Hospital recognized 26 African American nurses from the 1950′s on the same halls where they were confined to. At that time African Americans were only ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

She began her nursing career in 1966 as the first African-American nurse at Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma, now known ...

"Jaja's African Hair Braiding" is the comedic Broadway play closing out Ensemble Theatre's 2025 season. Why it's a must-see.

NBNA represents over 308,000 African American registered nurses students and retired nurses from over 100 charted chapters in 33 states, according to the NBNA president. "We are the voice of the ...

Kafuli Agbemenum, Kelly Foltz-Ramos and Eunhee Park have received one of the highest honors in the nursing profession.

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 ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.

According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Adah Belle Samuels Thoms graduated from the Lincoln School for Nursing in New York in 1905 and began working full-time at ...