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This Friday and Saturday, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center and the Chattanooga Lookouts host this year’s Negro League Appreciation Weekend, in partnership with Food City, as the Lookouts play the Biloxi Shuckers at AT&T Field.

Katherine Dunham was known as the “matriarch and queen of Black dance.” She was a dancer and choreographer, also an anthropologist and an activist. This Saturday, the Katherine Dunham Juba Dance Festival returns to Chattanooga - part of the Chattanooga Festivals of Black Arts and Ideas.

Matchmaking, the Sinai Desert and the man who found the Beatles all have their moments in this year’s Chattanooga Jewish Film Series. The series screens in person on Sundays at 4 PM from June 22nd through July 20th at the Jewish Cultural Center - paired with virtual screenings.

Sampling the foodways: A conversation with Bryan Roof. This year’s Juneteenth Commemoration Week in Chattanooga. Stargazing in Chattanooga: A podcast by a student at UTC. As you’ll hear - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

If you stopped by the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg this spring, maybe you saw him there. Bryan Roof is executive food editor for “Cook’s Country” - and an onscreen test cook for “America’s Test Kitchen," which airs on our public media partner WTCI PBS.

Juneteenth is the holiday that marks the end of slavery - and the emancipation of African-Americans - after the end of the Civil War in 1865. Over the weekend, The Unity Group of Chattanooga began its Juneteenth Commemoration Week.

Dollars Family - a three-piece blues-rock band in Chattanooga - joins Haley Solomon in the studio for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.

A few miles from downtown Chattanooga, an observatory has reached for the stars for decades. This past semester, Miller Richardson - a student in UTC’s Department of Communication - paid a visit for a podcast series that she produced as an intern for "Scenic Roots" on WUTC.

This year’s Juneteenth parade in Chattanooga will pass in front of the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, dedicated to this city’s African-American history and music. Elijah Cameron with The Bessie shares how the Center will commemorate Thursday’s holiday, ahead of this weekend’s Big 9 Music Fest.

Seven years ago, a Juneteenth festival began in Chattanooga - and at that time, it was the only event of its kind. This year, the festival is focusing on youth - as “Juniorteenth: Engaging the Next Generation” - on Thursday at The Howard School.