Completed in 1856
Kingston settled in 1792
Harriman incorporated in 1891
Rockwood founded in 1868
Completed 1942
Oliver Springs founded in 1821
Oak Ridge established in 1942
at Roane County Park
by Chris ButlerA Vanderbilt professor says rural Tennesseans are too racially prejudiced to realize Obamacare is good for them.That professor, Jonathan Metzl, told Boston University Today that he knows this about rural Tennesseans because he’s interviewed them.As The Tennessee Star previously reported, Metzl recently wrote a book called , Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics […]
Dear Friends of Allies of Knoxville’s Immigrant Neighbors,We invite you to join us to write letters on behalf of our immigrant neighbors at the November meeting of Allies of Knoxville’s Immigrant Neighbors this Wednesday, November 20, 5:30pm, at St James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway, Knoxville, 37917. We will write […]
by Mary Ellen Blencoe About 30 of my high school classmates and I are reminiscing about the good old times. A few of us have a separate thread going about racism (our school was segregated at that time). One of the men asked if we remembered our 7th grade Virginia […]
by Michael Edison Hayden In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch. The emails, which Miller […]
By Matthew Rosenberg and Nick CorasanitiNov. 10, 2019A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that the Kentucky governor’s race was going to […]
By Michele Norris Oct. 23, 2019 at 3:49 p.m. EDTMichele Norris is a former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” and the founding director of the Race Card Project.So you want to talk about lynching?Okay. Let’s talk.A lynching involved a man, but sometimes a woman or a child, who was dragged from home, […]
America, America… America is a nation of great contradiction: slavery & freedom…black & white…rich & poor…joy & pain. Among these, there is none more apparent and at the same time more elusive than that of race. One the other hand, our songs, and the stories that surround them offer vivid […]
Anderson County Democratic Women’s ClubOctober 2019Please join us at 6:00p.m. Monday, October 28thClinton Community Center101 Hicks St. Clinton, TN 37716Please WelcomeRepresentative Karen D. CamperMinority Leader Tennessee House of RepresentativesGet the newsletter here.
1999 vs. 2019: Senate Republicans’ attitudes on impeachment sure have changed a lot contributed by Mary Ellen Blencoe Senate Republicans have very different takes on impeaching Trump versus impeaching Clinton. Original Story – By Li Zhou and Hannah Brown, VOX, Updated Oct 2, 2019, 6:19pm EDT In 1999, Senate Republicans […]
….If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews Although the president was quoting Pastor Robert Jeffress’s comments on Fox News, […]
