by Harold Black | Mar 8, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com I have long bemoaned the intellectual laziness of our citizens. I could never understand why Black college students would wear Kinte cloth at their graduation exercises when Kinte cloth was worn by Black slavers in Africa...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major He was inducted into the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2015 and one of only six male lawyers in the State of Tennessee to receive this prestigious honor. A well-known lawyer in Grainger County, he is Attorney Creed Allen Daniel. When Creed...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidah McKeehan One of the questions that comes up from time to time with my personal injury clients is whether they have to pay taxes on their personal injury settlement. Usually this conversation occurs when the insurance company has made a settlement offer, and...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Knoxville’s Shame I have a lot of respect and admiration for Bob Booker who is a former state representative, city councilman, the former executive director of the Beck Cultural Center and an able historian. Robert Booker also writes a column...
by Ray Hill | Mar 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph W. Martin Jr. is probably a name unfamiliar to most folks today as he has slipped into the pages of political history, yet for decades he was a national figure of great significance, especially inside the Republican Party. Joe Martin served in...
by Jim Ferguson | Mar 1, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost By Dr. Jim Ferguson I scored last week, but not in the vernacular sense and certainly not as defined in the urban dictionary. After trying...
