It all started with the fight for equality for African Americans. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born to a family of freed slaves in the late 1840s. The scars of racism…

Sister Andre, also known as Lucile Randon, is getting back to her old self after contracting the coronavirus. She’s Europe’s oldest living person and, at age 117, she’s still going…

Dr. James Hutchinson still remembers the day the local newspaper ran a story about him with the title, “Negro MD gets a permit.” Instead of getting mad, he jokes that…

Nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes doesn’t want to stop working anytime soon, even though she’s 76. For her, fighting a pandemic runs in the family. Her mother, Kristine Berg Mueller, cared…

It’s not every day that a woman gives birth in the ICU. Monique Jones, 28, was 26 weeks pregnant with her second child when she started feeling fatigued and short…

Sometimes getting vaccinated is all about being in the right place at the right time. No appointment necessary. That was the case for a few stranded motorists in rural Oregon….

Betty Grier Gallagher was never the type to slow down, according to family and friends. Having been a nurse for over 50 years, she’d seen the highs and lows of…

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day has taken on a whole new meaning for many people. Over the past year, we have seen a renewed push for an end…

The community of Charlotte, North Carolina is paying tribute to Thereasea Elder, the city’s first black nurse, who passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday. She forever changed…

Coming down with COVID-19 in Siberia, Russia can be a daunting experience. Nearing 2.5 million confirmed cases and just shy of 45,000 deaths, the country is currently being decimated by…