After 60 years, Dr. Africa Wallace has become the first Black female president of the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society (ECTSS) and the first of any cardiothoracic surgery society.
Hospital managers today promised to review every single operation carried out by a pioneering woman surgeon who has been suspended following complaints about her work. Consultant surgeon Briony ...
Former Newfields President and CEO Colette Pierce Burnette. Provided by Newfields. *Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette has been let go from her position as president and CEO of the prominent art ...
Authorities say a woman was fatally stabbed Friday morning in Sunset Park. According to investigators, police responded to a ...
In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s ...
It started with a painting. Playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey was in New Haven in 2010 to stage one of his plays, “The Green Book,” at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.
The D.C. Council unanimously confirmed its new chief of police Tuesday. Pamela Smith is the first Black woman to be named permanent chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. "Our community ...
Nov. 14, 2023 — The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. Astrophysicists have now determined ...
Dr. Jo-Elle Mogerman has made history by becoming the first woman and the first Black CEO and president of the nation’s oldest zoo. Mogerman assumed the role at the Philadelphia Zoo on ...
Democrat Ed Brown has defeated Republican Brian Burke in Upper Darby’s mayoral race, becoming the first Black mayor of Pennsylvania’s eighth largest municipality. “We have a lot of diversity in our ...
Welcome back to How I Made It, Metro.co.uk’s weekly career journey series. This week, we’re chatting with Alice Dearing, 26, who is based in Loughborough and is the first Black female swimmer ...
Kentucky state Rep. Pam Stevenson believes the Bluegrass State is ready to elect its first Black female attorney general. “We’re winning,” Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for Kentucky ...
