Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and ho ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

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The world needs more nurses. If the heroes spotlighted in this article today teach anything it’s this: Be the change you want to see in your community.

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle.

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- A group of us from around Medina County have been working on finding the stories of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Medina County. The effort is part of the preparation for ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second-class citizenship.

After working eight years as a nurse, Rebecca Lee Crumpler ... By the end of the Civil War, about 179,000 Black men served as soldiers in the U.S. Army — making up 10% of total troops.

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...