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The First Black Nurse – Nancy Leftenant-Colon Major

January 16, 2021

Nancy Leftenant-Colon Major (retired). The first black nurse in the reserve or active-duty Army Nurse Corps. The only woman to hold the presidency of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. from 1989 – 1991. Along with select Tuskegee Airmen, received the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush on March 29, 2007.

How do you protect girls from FGM?

January 15, 2021

To protect oneself from COVID-19 wear a mask, stand six feet apart from others outdoors, and no indoor gatherings. How do you protect girls in Somalia, Egypt, Mali, Ethiopia and 25 other countries from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)? My mother comes from Somalia, where she narrowly escaped the war in the late nineties. According to […]

Charles Curtis – America’s First Vice President of Color

December 3, 2020

Native American Charles Curtis was the first United States vice president of color. He served from 1929 to 1933.