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Sekou Cooke is an architect and urban designer now based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the director of the urban design program at UNC Charlotte - and author of the book “Hip-Hop Architecture." On Thursday starting at 5:30 PM, Sekou will give a talk at Stove Works here in Chattanooga for CIVIQ, the speaker series from Chattanooga Design Studio.

Here in the Chattanooga area, the Speech and Hearing Center helps people with speech or hearing impairments - regardless of ability to pay. Taylor Bostwick is the Center’s president and CEO - and we spoke with her during this Better Speech and Hearing Month, which is nationwide all through May.

Richard Winham shares a performance by singer / songwriter Katrina Barclay from November 2021 live in The Woodshop on St. Elmo Ave. in Chattanooga.

Brent Martin on his book “George Masa’s Wild Vision.” Celebrating a century at United Way of Greater Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

George Masa emigrated to this country from Japan in the early 1900’s - and eventually, he settled in Asheville, North Carolina. A self-taught photographer, Masa and Horace Kephart played a role in the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Brent Martin is the author of a new book, “George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina,” published by Hub City Press.

A century ago this fall, what we now call the United Way of Greater Chattanooga was born. Today, the nonprofit facilitates giving through 14,000 donors and nearly 300 companies across six counties in the Tennessee Valley. United Way partners with more than 40 nonprofits to meet needs here in the Greater Chattanooga area - and its impact can be felt on our own campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

On Thursday night at 8:30 PM, Fawn Weaver - founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey - is the next guest on "The A List with Alison Lebovitz" on our public media partner WTCI PBS.

Richard Winham shares a session from Alicia Gail - the Nashville-based songwriter who blends classic blues with indie folk as Nightingail - performing live at The Woodshop on St. Elmo Avenue in Chattanooga. (First aired January 2022)

If these walls could talk at Standard Coosa Thatcher Mill. A Smoky Mountain taste of Scotland in East Tennessee. Tennessee Pirate Fest - and Season 2 for Obvious Dad. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

It’s a piece of Chattanooga’s industrial past - where the yarn that was spun from cotton spanned generations of families. Once upon a time in the last century, the Standard Coosa Thatcher Mill - a textile factory - employed thousands at 1800 South Watkins St. in the Oak Grove neighborhood. Now, there are signs of artistic life at the Mill, thanks to The Pop-up Project.