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Nurses You Should Know: Helping Change the Nursing Narrative
Nurses You Should Know launched on the first day of Black History Month. The project, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Nursing, includes daily stories of Black nurse pioneers and will also incorporate Asian Pacific Heritage Month (May), Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept – Oct), and Indigenous Peoples Month (Nov).
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Documentary about St. Louis' Homer G. Phillips Hospital a labor of love
St. Louis Public Radio
July 25, 2018
By Sarah Fentem.
History is Repeating the Marginalization of Black Nurses | Opinion
Newsweek 11/10/2021 Denise Dawkins
Mary Eliza Mahoney – First African American Graduate Nurse
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USA Today February 9, 2022 Nada Hassanein
Honoring African American Contributions in Medicine: Nurses
Library of Congress June 26, 2020 by Ellen Terrell
Black Nurses Association of Central Illinois discuss diversity, pandemic
WMBD Peoria, IL January 17, 2022 Demetrios Sanders
The Rise and Decline of African-American Hospitals in Philadelphia
Hidden City OCTOBER 2, 2020 by Moyra Schauffler