Youth Theatre Festival encourages creativity

Local professionals hosted arts workshops for children at the Youth Theatre Festival June 29.

Refugees celebrate progress, hope

Bridge Refugee Services clients shared their journeys with the public on World Refugee Day

PrideFest brings community together

Many East Tennesseans assembled in Knoxville to celebrate Pride month Saturday, June 23

Music, dance celebrate African American culture

The African American Appalachian Arts organization filled Downtown Knoxville with music and art.

Social justice fair brings awareness to Knoxville community

Groups promoted equality, progress and common-sense reforms for East Tennessee

Indie artists perform at Smart & Becker

Tennessee artists team up for a night of music exploring optimism and memory

Knoxville Celebrates Women’s Suffrage with New Monument

The City of Knoxville and the Women’s Suffrage Coalition unveiled the Burn Memorial Saturday, honoring Febb Burn and her son Harry Burn and their work in gaining women’s suffrage. “Persuading a majority of Southern gentlemen to give power to women was anything but an easy task,” said Wanda Sobieski, an attorney and founder of the …

Knoxville, Dobson turn out for Gun Violence Awareness Day

“Innocent lives matter. Our kid’s lives matter. Our lives matter,” says Zenobia Dobson, mother of the late Zaevion Dobson, at Mom’s Demand Action’s picnic for Gun Violence Awareness Day last Saturday. Dobson, president of the Zaevion Dobson Foundation, was joined by other activists and community organizers at West Hills Park on Saturday to raise awareness …