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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is the largest health insurer in the state - and the largest private employer here in Chattanooga. Its first-ever Health Equity Report - recently released - analyzes data to track the impact of disparities in health outcomes by race, ethnicity and other social factors.

As we celebrate the arts in our schools this month, we hear from a few voices from one community partnership for youth and the arts here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County.

David Floyd, reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press. How “Cultural Cross Ties” connects artists across Sister Cities. SoundBites: We Are Us, Blended Soul, Swayyvo - & More. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

A proposed ordinance on short-term vacation rentals here in Chattanooga failed to pass at the City Council this week. What happened - and what might happen next? David Floyd is local government reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Cultural Cross Ties is an art project created by Ann Law of Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga. The experimental partnership links artists in this city with artists in Chattanooga’s Sister Cities.

This year’s Chattanooga Jewish Documentary Film Series premieres this weekend. Five award-winning, Jewish-themed documentaries will be screened - in person and virtually - for five consecutive weeks. In person screenings will be held at the Jewish Cultural Center.

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.

Beauford Delaney’s art at Chattanooga’s Hunter Museum. “Bambi: A Life in the Woods” at Chattanooga Theatre Centre. From Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga: “The Borrowers” These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, soon after the turn of the last century. A Black modernist painter, he is remembered for his works during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and after his move to Paris. Stephen Wicks of the Knoxville Museum of Art is curator of the Delaney exhibition now on display at Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art.

On Friday, Chattanooga Theatre Centre premieres its stage version of “Bambi” that revisits the novel. Scott Dunlap is the director - and Kristiana Russell plays Bambi’s mother.