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aired Tues 1/12/21 Over the decades, the group’s activists have pushed for Black candidates to win local elected office in this city and in Hamilton County, advocated for a national holiday for Dr. King - and more. This year, because of the pandemic, the group has shifted to virtual for its annual King Week events - from last night’s event with the Tennessee Poor People’s Campaign through its march next Monday. Reverend Charlotte S.N.N. Williams is vice chairperson of The Unity Group of Chattanooga - and Eric Atkins is corresponding secretary. MLK Mural in downtown Chattanooga

Jan. 8, 2021 Rebecca Senoglu, Siana Sonoquie, Laura Levitt, Margaret Swick, Emmanuelle Sainte Friday, 11:30 In this segment, “Death Unsheltered,” fellow KZFR programmer Rebecca Senoglu is in conversation with Siana Sonoquie, artist and advocate for the unsheltered, about her experiences of death within the homeless community, about the new mural she has created to remember them, and about how Chico Friends Meeting , the Quakers, has responded to having an unsheltered neighbor die on their porch. ; Noon Laura Levitt, Author of the just released, The Objects that Remain discusses lo...

MLK Week And March To Be Virtual In 2021 Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words serve as the theme of the 51st Annual MLK Week and March -- “Just Keep Moving”, and given COVID-19 concerns, the 51st Annual MLK Week and March will “keep moving” by celebrating virtually in 2021, Jan. 12-18.   In 1967 Martin Luther King addressed a group of students at Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio. He spoke about the virtues of freedom and human dignity. He urged them to “develop within ourselves a deep sense of somebodiness.”  He told them to “make constru...

Ethiopia: Zenawi is Ruling from the Grave December 19, 2020 IGAD2020 Regional Security Watch Briefing: In May 2010, Ethiopia announced the provisional result of a national election led by TPLF leaders which was designed the general expectation, the return of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to power and set him on the road to nearly 25 years in power. Ethiopia’s Provisional election results were  expected to return Meles to power amid accusations of fraud and intimidation. He tells Reuters and Horn of Africa Newsline that “he never expected to be in power for so long. “It’s happened,” h...

Staff Last modified: Monday, May 05, 2014 Who was Slint? “Teenagers who thought about music differently than other people did,” is one fan’s simple description of the game-changing quartet from Louisville, Ky. The band only made two enigmatic records in the late ’80s and broke up before the second one, “Spiderland,” was released; their legend started growing immediately. As the years passed, the love for that strange, intense, abstract “rock” record seemed to grow exponentially. Now the album is regularly hailed as the big bang for the genre called “post-rock” and leaves a...