Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...
the first Black state senator to represent Long Island in the governing body’s 247-year history. In Albany she will represent ...
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 ...