Known as “Lefty," she was one of six siblings who served in the military, including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen ...

Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...

LC state's nursing program is now a preferred choice for the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, offering enlisted personnel an affordable ...

serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for the sick and injured as a flight nurse in the Air Force, died Jan. 8 at a nursing home in Amityville ...

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 ...

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order desegregating the armed forces. It was the ...

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

Furey, 78, is featured in the fourth hour of Apple TV+'s "Vietnam: The War That Changed America, " a six-parter that drops ...