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It's a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest employers here in Chattanooga, home to its headquarters. Unum - the insurance provider - is celebrating 175 years in business. Liz Ahmed is the company’s executive president for people and communications.

On Thursday afternoon, live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined us for our monthly conversation. Among the topics: homelessness, electric vehicles and the Mentor Hub.

From Nashville to Chattanooga, a key to affordable housing. This year’s SPLASH Summer Arts Festival in Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

As home prices and rents soar in Nashville, The Housing Fund is a nonprofit that unlocks opportunities for people of low and moderate income in that city to attain affordable housing and homeownership - and the Fund's work extends to Chattanooga.

Artists Charlie and Iantha Newton are the founders of SPLASH Youth Arts Workshop here in Chattanooga, offering free arts workshops as a way to mentor youth in this city’s underserved communities. On Saturday, August 19th, SPLASH hosts its annual Summer Arts Festival in Miller Park, from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Chelsea Risley on her new role at Chattanooga’s SoLit. Aging with Grace from the City of Chattanooga here at UTC. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

SoLit is a literary arts hub in downtown Chattanooga for this area and the Southeast. Last year, the nonprofit celebrated its 70th anniversary - and recently, Chelsea Risley became its new executive director.

This weekend, the Mayor’s Council on Livability and Aging in this city presents an event here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Aging with Grace is on Saturday from 9 AM to 4:30 PM in the University Center.

These days, Chattanooga Design Studio is involved in a few major projects for this city’s future, from the Westside to Broad Street to Montague Park. On this episode of Scenic Roots, we’re talking with the Studio's Eric Myers and Johanna Heywood.

James Baldwin, the African-American writer and activist, was born nearly a century ago - on August 2nd, 1924. This month, the James Baldwin Festival of Words takes place here in Chattanooga - from Friday, August 25th through Sunday, August 27th.