by design | Apr 12, 2023 | The Daily Focus
KCHD recognizes Black Maternal Health Week The Knox County Health Department is celebrating Black Maternal Health Week, in partnership with the Knox Birth Equity Alliance. Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women...
by design | Apr 11, 2023 | The Daily Focus
City Open House: East Knoxville The City of Knoxville will host an East Knoxville Community Open House at 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. Like two previous open houses held in North and South Knoxville, residents can come and go...
by design | Apr 10, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Even though I have lived amongst white people since I was 17 years old, I don’t pretend to understand them. Why do whites condemn white supremacy if they are white? It seems to me that if whites are...
by design | Apr 10, 2023 | Baker, Columnist
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com When I first started writing this weekly column for The Knoxville Focus, Steve Hunley asked me to come up with a name for my column. I thought back to many years ago when my Dad told me “Everything looks easy from a...
by design | Apr 10, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime. Joseph Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria. By Dr. Jim Ferguson Do you find it curious that President Trump’s Manhattan arraignment was during Holy Week? President Trump is no Jesus. He is a sinner like me....
