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James Baldwin, the African-American author and activist, was born in New York City a hundred years ago this Friday. To mark the milestone, the Chattanooga Festivals of Black Arts and Ideas will host a birthday celebration that starts downtown at the Chattanooga Public Library.

Food for Thought is an invitational group exhibit set to open this fall at the Jewish Cultural Center here in Chattanooga, in partnership with the local media startup Food as a Verb. An open call for people to submit their images for the exhibit ends on Monday, August 5th.

Periscope is a business development program that connects artists with entrepreneurs in the Chattanooga area. The nonprofit ArtsBuild offered the training for the first cohort of Periscope artists last year - and applications for a new cohort of artists are due by this Friday, August 2nd.

For this episode, we talk about health and wellness with Jessica Pilcher, Director of United for Working Families at United Way of Greater Chattanooga - and David Kinzler, CEO of One-to-One Health here in Chattanooga.

This spring, TEDxChattanooga hosted “Sessions” - a showcase of local musicians and their ideas worth sharing - at Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga. Among them: Rachel Blackmon - singer, songwriter, violinist and aspiring multi-instrumentalist.

TEDxChattanooga “Sessions”: Nicholas Edward Williams, Part II. Chattamatters: “We Will Not Be Satisfied Until” on MLK Boulevard. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Nicholas Edward Williams, multi-instrumentalist and storyteller, is one of the local musicians who performed at this spring's TEDxChattanooga "Sessions" at Barking Legs Theater. The theme: “Carry On” - the theme for all of TEDxChattanooga’s events this year.

One of the largest murals in this country is in downtown Chattanooga. Artist Meg Saligman painted the piece “We Will Not Be Satisfied Until” on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in 2015. The story from Ian-Alijah Bey of Chattamatters.

For this episode, we talk about United for Working Families - and gain a better understanding of what families in our community are facing today - with Lesley Scearce, President and CEO of United Way of Greater Chattanooga.

If you now visit Chester Frost Park on the banks of Chickamauga Lake, you’ll find waterfront yurts for rent - and a fishing pier named for George Wright. Matt Folz is director of Hamilton County Parks and Recreation.