LONDON -- Google today honoured Mary Seacole, a Jamaican/Scottish nurse who nursed wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the Crimean War in the 1850s. SEE ALSO: 5 black artists using their work ...

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 ...

Last Thursday, a monumental statue of Mary Seacole was unveiled in London. Sculpted by artist Martin Jennings, the bronze depicts the 19th-century nurse striding forward; a disc behind her has an ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the river from the Houses of Parliament in London, a small yet significant ceremony took place last month. As a few dignitaries looked on in the gardens of St Thomas’ Hospital, a Church of ...

At a time when the politics of identity has become a central subject of theatrical inquiry, it’s only fitting that African American dramatists have been leading the charge. Jackie Sibblies Drury ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick By Ben Brantley Jackie Sibblies Drury has taken a shredder to the sacred Great Person biodrama and let the pieces fall like confetti. In ...