– Biden orders more intel investigation of COVID-19 origin. – Signs point to shift in combating sexual assault in military.– 100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains. And during her residency, she was the sole Black resident in a program with no Black faculty, staff or ancillary personnel. Some patients refused to call her by her proper rank or even acknowledge her. White subordinates often refused to salute her or seemed uncomfortable taking orders from her, she says. Or for the white resident colleagues who gave her the call sign of ABW – it was a joke, they insisted – an “angry black woman,” a classic racist trope. Over the course of decades, she steadily advanced, becoming a flight surgeon, commander of flight medicine at Fairchild Air Force Base and, eventually, a lieutenant colonel.īut many of her service colleagues, Davis says, saw her only as a Black woman. She joined the service in 1988 after finishing high school in Thomasville, Georgia, a small town said to be named for a soldier who fought in the War of 1812. For Stephanie Davis, who grew up with little, the military was a path to the American dream, a realm where everyone would receive equal treatment.
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