MARY Seacole appears in the 13th series of Doctor Who as it features the Crimean War. The Jamaican-born nurse was renowned for treating the sick and wounded on the battlefield at her own expense after ...

Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...

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Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays the real-life 19th-century Jamaican-born healer in 'Marys Seacole,' the new experimental drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury, author of the acclaimed 'Fairview.' By Frank ...

Courtesy of Live Arts Theater. “Drury tells this story from a transcendental space within the global Black woman experience. There are particular caregiving experiences that Black women across the ...

A student nurse practicing triage. A nanny scrolling through cellphone photos of her daughter, far away. A 19th-century field hospital, buffeted by explosions and flame-colored smoke. These and other ...

Mary Seacole, a self-taught nurse of Jamaican-Scottish heritage, died on 14 May 1881 When a new community hospital named after pioneering nurse Mary Seacole opened in Surrey this month, it marked a ...

Coventry enjoyed its second Black History Month this year with exhibitions and events being held in collaboration with Coventry Black Experience. As part of the celebration, Phillis Williams, a local ...

Born in Jamaica in 1805 to a Scottish soldier father and a mixed-race mother, Mary Seacole travelled to Crimea in the 1850s to set up a treatment centre for soldiers. Known as "Mother Seacole", she ...

Once forgotten nurse Mary Seacole is being honoured with a Google Doodle for her efforts to help wounded soldiers during the Crimean War in the face of racial prejudice. When Mary Seacole was named ...

Doctor Who: Flux Episode 2, “War of the Sontarans,” features Mary Seacole (Sara Powell), Britain’s first Black nurse, in the middle of a Sontaran invasion of Earth in 1855. Aliens meddling in human ...

Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas' hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys & ...