By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed away earlier this month at a nursing home in New York. Known for quietly breaking […]
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