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Writer Lexx Thornton Jefferson Community and Technical College (Jefferson) and Kentucky State University (KSU) Today, today was announced in a new partnership in the nurses in the nurses today. The partnership creates a way to carry out a BSN of KSU with the support of a significant person in Jefferson’s campus for the graduates of Jefferson’s nurse program. In addition, the scholarship of KSU’s Jefferson-2-KSU, gives students a bachelor’s degree of unutrition to students for the Federal Pell Grant. “Kentucky State University is a positive step towards expanding opportunities for the partnership and nurses,” he said. “By offering an open,…

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It Trump administration has published new directives to legally select immigrants seeking the citizenship of the United States. Now applicants will need to show what seems to increase the “good moral character”, as the North -American Citizenship and Immigration Services have instructed officers in a memory Sent on Friday. Update expands an existing evaluation for “good moral character” to include grip on social norms An evaluation of “good moral character”, along with English language tests and civility, was already included as a requirement for the United States Citizenship application. It was fulfilled by anyone who did not show criminal crimes…

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PORT ST. JOE, Fla.—Not long ago, this rural coastal town in the Florida Panhandle was home to a thriving Black community, with locally owned shops and restaurants and plentiful jobs at the nearby paper mill.  Their community fell into decay after the paper mill closed in 1999, but today residents have big plans for restoring and uniting it, finally, with the white side of town.  They envision a reinvented Martin Luther King Boulevard, the main thoroughfare here, with mixed-use development, extended sidewalks and a new Black history museum. They had crafted a redevelopment plan with the community’s beachy location making…

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DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) – A new study released by a financial news and opinion company from Delaware shows Iowa as the third worst state for Black Americans. Illinois and Wisconsin, both in the tri-state area, are in the Top 5 with Wisconsin being ranked as the worst state for Black Americans.24/7 Wall St., the organization in charge of the study, created an index consisting of eight measures to assess race-based gaps in socioeconomic outcomes: median household income, poverty, adult high school and bachelor’s degree attainment, homeownership, unemployment rates, prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities by race…

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A new MEDEVAC HH-60M “Mike” Black Hawk helicopter has been stationed at the National Guard Aviation Support Facility in Wood County. (Photo Provided) WILLIAMSTOWN — The West Virginia National Guard’s Company C, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, Aeromedical Evacuation Company, received its first of six new HH-60M “Mike” model Black Hawk helicopters at the Army Aviation Support Facility 1 in Williamstown. Built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the U.S. Army, the HH-60M-model is specifically designed to support aerial medical and ambulatory patient transport MEDEVAC services such as evacuating wounded troops from the battlefield under difficult weather conditions, during day and night.…

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One effect of the protests that swept the U.S. after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd last year was a reckoning in corporate America with the searing impact of racism. Yet while numerous business leaders have pledged to uplift communities of color and help erase racial inequities, a handful of companies are projected to make the biggest leaps in diversity and inclusion: Bank of America, Netflix, UPS and Walmart.One clear common denominator among the four: a genuine push to hire more people of color. Also, these companies have the scale to fund race-focused initiatives nationwide. Perhaps most important is their…

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