By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — The last year has been lived in isolation for the majority of the country. That isolation has resulted in a 14 percent rise in suicide, 31 percent rise in […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — As the history books are being written about the pandemic of 2020 and the recovery years that followed, many who made a difference will be written up in those […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — It was a different type of email. sent out by Principal Ashley Speas to the parents of every student at West High School on a Sunday night. The email […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — He was so frail. He was unable to walk and arrived by transport van in a wheelchair. As they prepared to lower the lift at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — In one of the smoothest operations seen in Knoxville, over 400 elderly, ages 70 and up were given their first vaccine shot of the Pfizer brand in less than 6 […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — On Martin Luther King Day they gathered on the steps of the Jacob Building to announce they were an army, qualified and ready to be deployed to fight in […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — “Community just doesn’t happen. People make community.” these words, penned by Claude Whitmyer, in the book,” In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World,” describes two […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — Cecily Tyson refused to act in any role that degraded her people, Martin Luther Ling and Malcolm X pushed for recognition and equality, and Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — With those words, The African American Health Care Clinician Workgroup, along with founders, Vice Mayor Gwen McKenzie and Cynthia Finch, and sponsors, New Direction Healthcare Solutions, C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Ministries, Faith […]
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — She is quiet and unassuming. She doesn’t care to be in the lime light and works to accomplish great things by sharing her gifts and resources to build up […]
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