Vickie Evans-Nash

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Vickie Evans-Nash (vnash [at] spokesman-recorder [dot] com) writes for the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.

Northside Achievement Zone hiring mostly Northsiders, nontraditional approach seeks workers already 'connected to the Zone'

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Lucretia Gill (Photos courtesy of NAZ)

Lucretia Gill is a connector. She talks to families with children in North Minneapolis to determine their family’s goals, and then she connects them to the organizations that can address the challenges hindering them from reaching their goals.

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Council on Black Minnesotans has new director, new agenda, new vision to get beyond tolerance

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

In October 2012, Edward McDonald was appointed director of the Council on Black Minnesotans (COBM). The process began when he was approached by friends and colleagues who thought he would serve well in the role.

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Ahmad Azzahir speaks 'from a place of soul'

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Ahmad Azzahir was born in Grenada, West Indies, where the warm tropical setting makes a person aware of the sun. “You get up with the sun and the morning is bright… So there is a kind of joy, it doesn’t matter how poor you are. So as a kid I grew up poor, but outside all the time, played.”

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Mental Health First Aid provides the needed skills for responding to mental health crises

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

NAMI Minnesota’s criminal justice director, Anna McLafferty (left), and their older adults program director and development officer, Kay King, are certified Mental Health First Aid instructors. The koala bear is the class mascot, Algee, named after the first-aid acronym taught to students in the class. He is a koala because the class originated in Australia. (Photo courtesy of NAMI Minnesota)

First aid and CPR classes have been taught across the nation for years now, giving people with no medical training lifesaving skills in the event of a medical crisis. People suffering from mental health problems can pose a life-threatening crisis as well.

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Inauguration 2013: Obama presidency gives African Americans hope for 'a more perfect union'

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

(Photos by Vickie Evans-Nash)

Over 800,000 people were in attendance on the National Mall for the 2013 presidential inauguration. Though the crowd may not have equaled the size of the 2009 gathering, this second presidential inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama demonstrated Americans’ enthusiasm for his presidency.

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Election judges keep polling places operating smoothly

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Stephani Booker has been an election judge for over 10 years. (Photo by Amy Buchannan)

Serving as an election judge and helping voters navigate through the voting process is an invaluable contribution to our democratic process. Stephani Booker, who has been an election judge for over a decade, explains what it takes to become an election judge and how to show up prepared next week at the polls.

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Support group offers information and understanding to Black women with breast cancer

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

AABCA’s 2011 celebration (Photo by James L. Stroud, Jr.)

The African American Breast Cancer Alliance (AABCA) was started in October of 1990 by a group of women who had been affected by or diagnosed with breast cancer. This year they will celebrate 22 years of African American women in the Twin Cities who have supported each other in facing and surviving breast cancer.

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Black RN starts health academy to increase profession's diversity

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Rachelle Simmons has been a nurse for 23 years. “I grew up in St. Paul’s Summit/University neighborhood.

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Most agree MCTC needs more faculty of color: The disagreements are over how many, and how best to attract and keep them

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Prospective MCTC students tour the campus.

In last week’s story, one former and two current faculty members questioned MCTC’s commitment to creating a diverse faculty.

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Students of color now the majority at Minneapolis Community and Technical College: Can the school handle this much diversity?

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

MCTC faculty members (l-r) Dr. Kathleen DeVore, Shannon Gibney and Dr. SooJin Pate (now resigned) (Photos by Emmett Timmons)

Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) has one of the most racially diverse college campuses in the state of Minnesota.

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