Many hospitals refused to hire Black nurses regardless of their qualifications, while others enforced strict hierarchies preventing advancement. Despite these obstacles, determined women created ...

This effect was especially striking for Black nurses. Nurses of color experienced a “dual pandemic,” Thomas-Hawkins said. The stress of coping with a public health crisis involving a ...

as a Black nurse. “Often, Black women are not listened to when it comes to their needs,” said MaGee. “They’re often labeled as dramatic and aggressive. Me being a Black female nurse ...

Thompson graduated from Arizona State University in May 2020 and became a registered nurse in July 2020. She is now one of many Black nurses working on the frontlines of the pandemic in the United ...

"The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" sheds light on a crucial aspect of medical history that had long been overlooked: the significant contributions of ...

Alvionna Brewster is the driving force behind the Black Nurse Entrepreneurs (BNE) group, a community dedicated to supporting African-American nurses. Founded in 2015, BNE has grown to include over ...

For Montrealer Jennifer Philogène, director of Quebec's chapter for the Canadian Black Nurses Alliance, the high proportion of Black women in health care can be explained by culture. Strong ...

Allen — who died April 17 at age 99, just shy of her 100th birthday — made history when she became the first Black nurse in Hamilton in 1952. is a freelancer who writes about film and TV for ...

Margo Brooks Carthon, who led research finding that Black patients are more sensitive to poorer nurse staffing rates than their white counterparts and that Black patients were disproportionately ...