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

In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

She kept trying, and in 1945, with the flow of wounded servicemen from overseas combat near its peak, she was accepted into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during ...

Lorra Hernon, a pediatric nurse at OBCC and newly appointed first ... “That’s when I started learning the dynamics of what the Air Force Reserve can offer me and what I can offer them.” ...

First, as a nurse in Ortho Trauma surgery at Huntsville Hospital. She’s also a volunteer EMT with the New Market Volunteer Fire Department and an Army Reserve captain. When asked how she keeps ...

The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation ... It was in the Air Force that she met Reserve Capt. Bayard Colon. The two married, but Colon passed ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104.

"CRNAs — who earn their advanced degree and certification — are ready to serve, but too often face barriers to practice ...

Black nurses were still prohibited from joining the regular Army at the time ... She married Air Force Reserve Capt. Bayard K. Colon after retirement. Colon died of a heart attack in 1972.