Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
The Shreveport Times2d
Did you know men from Louisiana flew high as Tuskegee Airmen in World War II?
The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...
Atlanta Voice3d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Trailblazing Army Nurse and Air Force Veteran, Dies at 104
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...
The Westside Gazette1d
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site: They Cannot Be Erased
The irony of the US Air Force playing enforcer AGAINST the Tuskegee Airmen in the year 2025 can be gleaned from knowing that ...
Live 5 News6d
Funeral for 1st Black military nurse, Goose Creek native, set for Saturday in NY
In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen ...
Trump signs an order to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops.