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 historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...

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

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...

An instructional film that depicts the World War II Black aviators as proof that diversity strengthens the military is not back in classroom use.

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated ... including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot. He was killed in a mid-air collision ...

Tuskegee Airmen, 2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Jan. 14, 2016. Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after ... regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Leftenant-Colon is ...