Angela Dennis

Dasha Lundy, Ph.D.. has been appointed interim president of Knoxville College by the historically Black school's board of directors. (Photo: Angela Dennis for the Tennessee Lookout)

There are parts of the Magnolia Corridor that don’t just hold space, they hold memory. For all of us. As a little girl born in East Knoxville I spent long and hot summer days playing in the dirt while watching my dad play baseball for the Knoxville Blue Jays at Bill Meyer Stadium. We had

Mechanicsville has always been one of those Knoxville neighborhoods where the past still feels close. It shows up in the shotgun homes and colorful Victorian houses along Deaderick Avenue, in the stories still passed down about Knoxville College and the old College Homes, and in the residents who held onto the neighborhood’s identity through decades

An East Tennessee school district has reversed its ban on “ Roots: The Saga of an American Family ,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex

Knox County Schools has reversed its ban on “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley.

An East Tennessee school district has reversed its ban

The Knox County Board of Education voted to ask the Tennessee Legislature to amend the state's Age-Appropriate Materials Act.

A Knox County school board committee read a single passage from Alex Haley's Roots and did exactly what Tennessee law told them to do.

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A Knox County school board committee read a single passage from Alex Haley’s Roots and did exactly what Tennessee law told them to do. They banned it, voting to pull it from school libraries.Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk reversed the ban May 26, returning the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-win...