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Next week in downtown Chattanooga, an evening to raise awareness and support for suicide prevention. “Sounds of Healing” - presenting music, speakers and a discussion - is Monday starting at 7 PM at Songbirds, featuring the nonprofit Be the Change Youth Initiative.

Each month, SoundCorps - the music nonprofit here in Chattanooga - showcases five locally-produced songs in “SoundBites,” which supports our own musicians. Stratton Tingle - executive director of SoundCorps - shares the latest SoundBites with us.

Constitution Day marks the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17th, 1787. Next week, the Constitution Day Lecture Series here on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - is Wednesday, September 13th.

For this episode of "One for All," Woodson Carpenter of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga speaks with Dr. LeAndrea Ware and Susan Cowden.

BetterFi’s relief from payday loans in rural Tennessee. This year’s Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Starting on June 1st through June 19th, the Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas: Juneteenth Independence Day returns for a sixth year - to celebrate the contributions by artists of African descent in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, film and literature.

Doing the work of inclusion - and measuring it - in Chattanooga. Jazz & uptown soul for the Velvet Chair Experience at the Bessie. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

There’s a saying: “If you can measure it, you can manage it.” The Community Culture Index is a data-driven effort to measure how well employers in Chattanooga are building diverse and inclusive workspaces, from the people they hire to the practices they follow.

At the end of this month, a new concert series - the Velvet Chair Experience - rekindles the music scene of when Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. was Ninth St. - the Big 9 - in downtown Chattanooga. The first concert - featuring jazz and uptown soul from vocalist Karen Collins - is on Sunday, May 28th starting at 7 PM at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center.

Montague Park is the largest urban park in Chattanooga, home to Sculpture Fields and the Chattanooga Football Club Foundation. An urban design and landscape planning process is now reimagining the park to revitalize the space, including two public meetings on Tuesday for community input.