She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers ...

Oberlin’s Black Women of Excellence,” a ceremony organized by the Oberlin House of the Lord Fellowship Center, took place Sunday. The event was organized in honor of Black History Month as a novel ...

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

Known for quietly breaking barriers during her remarkable military career, Leftenant-Colon enjoyed a legacy of resilience, ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

I was interested to read the article about Nancy Leftenant-Colon’s life as a military nurse you published Sunday, Jan. 26, originally written for The Washington Post by Harrison Smith (”Nancy ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

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

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...