Angela Dennis ✍🏽

Race & Culture Reporter as seen in @tnlookout @KnoxNews @USATODAY Network| Maynard 200 Fellow 23’ Co-Host @BlackAppalachia Podcast| and @blacknochaser

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

When your reporting makes @USATODAY teamwork makes the dream work w/ @tyler_whetstone

In a state fraught with racist history, GOP expulsion of "Tennessee Three" hits a nerve

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[Queer Latifah ✨ @TheAfrocentricI]

Roots was viewed by 140 million people when it debuted in 1977, that was more than 1/2 of the US. It had the largest viewership ever of any TV series in US history at the time. Meaning some folks trying to ban it also saw it. They know the history they are working so hard to ban.

[The Knoxville Holler @KnoxvilleHoller]

UPDATE: After loud backlash, @KnoxSchools has put ‘ROOTS’, a Pulitzer-prize winning state book, back in schools. (From @AngelaDWrites)

https://t.co/tjogNFn6jX

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

UPDATE: After loud backlash, @KnoxSchools has put ‘ROOTS’, a Pulitzer-prize winning state book, back in schools. (From @AngelaDWrites)

https://t.co/wvionxzmjW

[Ben Johansen @benjohansen3]

In response to a video President Trump posted Thursday depicting the Obamas as monkeys, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Politico:

"This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

She shared the full video, which also depicted Hillary Clinton as a boar and Hakeem Jeffries as a meerkat, but neither were included in Trump's post.

[Omar Kelly @OmarKelly]

Every time I see Lauryn Hill perform like a normal human, and showcase her talents…..I get sad because we’ve missed out on great art from her for 2 decades.

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

.@UTKGeography @theAAG @ArtsSciencesUT Symbolism isn’t enough: What Tennessee’s MLK streets reveal about investment and power. Grateful to have chance to contribute to this wonderfully writtem piece. Thanks @AngelaDWrites https://t.co/TE83cVfAO3

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

NEW: @TNLookout

Symbolism isn’t enough: What Tennessee’s MLK streets reveal about investment and power.

Thanks to all the leaders across the state who helped me tell this important story.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump didn’t even acknowledge MLK Day.

No statement. No tribute. Nothing.

That’s not a mistake. That’s the point.

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

The Jacksonville Free Press is getting unprecedented attention—and it highlights why supporting Black journalism is so vital. https://t.co/2eEQvz47QB #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BlackStarNetwork #BlackJournalism #Jacksonville

[Will Brown @wwbrown19]

The Jacksonville Free Press (@JacksonvilleFP) announced this morning that it will sell T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies with Lynn Jones' encouraging words.

All proceeds go directly to the Jacksonville Free Press and support its local journalism.

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[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

I don’t date short men anymore. My daughter told me not to 😂😭

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

I love men who are in shape and dedicated to their fitness and health. Muscles don’t hurt anyone.

The older we get it’s even more attractive ❤️

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

With time and experience you realize the quality and type of person you are truly meant for and deserving of. Then God does his thing ❤️

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

Part of the problem is that too many people in leadership have never had to rely on the very systems they make decisions about. They’ve never stood in line for assistance, waited on housing approval, or worried about how to stretch one paycheck to the next.

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

The belief or idea that 40 million Americans are lazy or unambitious is ridiculous. My heart goes out to all those working hard to make a better life for themselves and their kids but just need a little help. Our disabled and elderly.

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

I will never forget the times that WIC and SNAP benefits helped me during a difficult time as a young mom AND I was working. It’s egregious and disgusting to me that we are here.

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

Exclusive: @TNLookout Former Knox County Commissioner Dr. Dasha Lundy returns as Knoxville College’s interim president at a critical crisis point in the school’s 150-year history. In an interview she and college alumni discuss the vision and the college’s current status on accreditation, finances, and campus infrastructure as it faces a pivotal crossroads.

#HBCU #blackhistory

Link https://t.co/2HcQKUOs2Q

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

NEW: @TNLookout

Bobby Cain, a towering figure in Tenneseee’s civil rights movement and one of the first Black students to integrate a public high school in the South died Monday at the age of 85 in Nashville.

A former Knoxville Austin high school student and one year before the “Little Rock Nine” integrated Arkansas’s Central High School, Cain was the first African-American graduate of Clinton High School in East Tennessee and was among the “Clinton 12”, a group of Black students who were eligible to attend the school on Aug 26, 1956.

The school’s integration followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregated public schools unconstitutional. Anderson County ended funding to bus Black students across county lines to Knox County, leaving Cain with little choice but to go to Clinton, a small town located about 30 minutes from Knoxville. It became one of the first communities in the South to implement court ordered desegregation.

Adam Velk, Director of the Green McAdoo Cultural Center, a museum that commemorates the integration of Clinton High School, said that Cain’s contributions are still felt today.

“Every child across our country has access to an equitable public education system because Bobby Cain graduated from Clinton High School on May 17, 1957,” said Velk. “He was given no choice but to be a part of one of the most difficult social experiments in American history. He is a hero not just because he was the first, but because of the circumstances in which he got his education.

Cain was graduate of Tennessee State University, lifetime member of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and faithful member of Asbury United Methodist Church in Clinton. He was also an active associate member of Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville.

Link https://t.co/OwsNtWSu9t