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Here in Chattanooga, the Three Sisters Festival of Bluegrass Music is tuning up for its crystal anniversary - crystal with a c, that is. The festival, free for the public, returns for its 15th year on Friday and Saturday at Ross’ Landing on the Tennessee River. I spoke with George Bright, son of Fletcher Bright - and George’s daughter, Eleanor.

The White Oak Connector Trail project links Stringer’s Ridge Park in Chattanooga with White Oak Park in Red Bank. In the past few years, the trail’s development led by the Trust for Public Land yielded the existence of an African-American cemetery, forgotten by many - unknown to many more.

Benford Stellmacher, Jr. is an artist who views his canvas as a pulpit. His exhibition - "The Weight of My Faith" - features artworks inspired by these words from Biblical Scripture: “Faith without works is dead.” The exhibition opens Friday at ClearStory Arts here in Chattanooga.

Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, soon after the turn of the last century. A Black modernist painter, he is remembered for his works during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and after his move to Paris. Stephen Wicks of the Knoxville Museum of Art is curator of the Delaney exhibition now on display at Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art.

“The Six Triple Eight” is a film that tells the story of an all-Black and all-female U.S. Army battalion in Europe during World War II who fixed a three-year backlog of undelivered mail. On Friday, a free screening of the Tyler Perry film - partly shot here in Chattanooga - comes to The Walker Theatre.

(Aired Weds 12/03/25) Freedom Sings USA is a nonprofit based here in Chattanooga that brings together professional songwriters with veterans, active service members in the U.S. military and their families to help them tell their stories through song.

NPR has collected multiple eyewitness accounts about small, gun-carrying drones shooting — and sometimes killing — civilians in Gaza. Israel's military has not confirmed whether it uses sniper drones.

Tuesday's top race is in Ohio, where voters are set to pick nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. Redistricting has also affected some of the state's closely watched House races.

The social networking site will not change its requirement for people to use "real" names on their profiles, but it will adjust how alleged violations are reported and enforced.

Over the past decade, 39,000 people have come forward to tell the government they've been hiding money overseas. Here's what they tell us about offshore money.