Second Missionary Baptist Church is rounding up more than 50 students mostly from the inner city and taking them to college for spring break.
Getting a job was a big deal, but it was just the beginning for Kenyell Jefferson.
Students from six Hamilton County and North Georgia high schools will participate in the first African-American History Challenge Bowl sponsored by 100 Black Men this weekend.
East Lake resident Estella Jackson has been on the waiting list for Meals On Wheels for nearly four months and has hopes of becoming one of the 220 Hamilton County residents served in the home meal delivery program.
In the last few weeks schools have been talking about racial progress.
Growing Power's urban gardening provided more than 100 jobs in Milwaukee and delivered food for hundreds of people there who did not have access to fruits and vegetables.
City codes regulating housing should be updated to reflect changing needs, and a housing task force should be established to set goals and make sure housing needs for more people are met, according to a report by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency.
The former executive director of the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition gave herself an unauthorized raise of $280 per period, which led to $4,481 in unauthorized salary over 16 pay periods from November 2011 to July 2012, according to a forensic review.
Crime, government spending and jobs are chief concerns for District 8 residents, said City Councilman Andraé McGary
No vacant buildings will be boarded up on Glass Street next weekend.
Question: Whatever happened to the One Stop Shop?
State nutrition consultants stood at the front of the cafeteria line at Soddy-Daisy Middle School on Wednesday and watched students choose their lunches.
Glass House Collective launched block parties, neighborhood workshops and architectural design sessions to uplift the Glass Street community.
Some Chattanooga and North Georgia students are about to glimpse a piece of history rarely seen outside the nation's capital.
Chattanooga teenagers in 1960 disobeyed their parents and risked their lives to challenge segregation and inequality.
Blacks make up only 14 percent of the national population but account for 44 percent of new cases of AIDS, according to the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day website.
The Chattanooga Housing Authority is required to make 5 percent of its new housing units handicap accessible, but when the housing agency went through the 550 applicants who applied to live at its two newest housing sites, no applicant needed one of those units.
Less than two years after the Tennessee Multicultural Chamber of Commerce lost funding, nearly a dozen black-owned businesses are forming their own network and marketing organization.
Kids came to Nolan Elementary School's auditorium giggling softly and wearing hats and gloves.
The Chattanooga Housing Authority is required to make 5 percent of its new housing units handicap accessible, but when the housing agency went through the 550 applicants who applied to live at its two newest housing sites, no applicant needed one of those units.
Instead of being used dollar-for-dollar directly to help people who are homeless, an estimated $20,000 raised during the Grateful Gobbler Walk is being spent on overhead expenses for the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition.
Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority is celebrating its 40th anniversary today. All passengers will receive discounted fares on bus and Care-A-Van trips all day.
Chattanooga Housing Authority's board of commissioners agreed to give a $2.1 million to $2.6 million loan to a development company that wants to renovate Jaycee Towers I.
Gathered outside in the late afternoon sunshine, crowds of people waited for the start of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial March.
As soon as President Barack Obama emerged from the nation's capital building there was screaming and shouting.
Wilhelmina Hogg missed President Barack Obama's first inauguration. She was determined not to miss his second one.
What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. say about churches and their effort to reach people with HIV/AIDS?
A local Bible study teacher and hair stylist is taking at least a dozen students with behavior problems on a missions trip. The students will help build homes in Jamaica.
The Chattanooga Taxi Board will hear complaints Thursday against a local cab owner accused of overcharging customers.
Civil rights leaders no longer go to jail for sitting at the front of the bus or endure violence to eat at cafe lunch counters.
Herman Kelly has had Kelly's Kreations in his head and heart.
When President Barack Obama is sworn in as president of the United States next week, at least 60 people from Chattanooga will be at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to see it.
In its heyday the local branch of the NAACP had more than 5,000 members.
If you have a fever mixed with a cough, sore throat or body ache, you have official permission — even urging — from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department not to go to work.
Multicolored confetti dropped from the Creative Discovery Museum's ceiling while the Saxophobia band blew "Auld Lang Syne" and nearly 1,000 people watched.
James Mapp, who led the local NAACP chapter for 20 years, will serve as NAACP president again in 2013.
She was born during the Depression and grew up in the days when the Chattanooga trolley was for whites only.
The Chattanooga Community Kitchen's shelter has been open since the beginning of this month with an average of 85 people sleeping there at night.
Young people may not know the struggle that older blacks endured for civil rights, Jessica Moore says, and she wants to talk to youths about their history and culture.
The truth is the dead are soon forgotten, Brother Ron Fender, outreach case manager with the Chattanooga Community Kitchen, said at the kitchen's annual ceremony to honor people who died homeless during the year.
Chattanooga Housing Authority has a waiting list of nearly 5,000 people, but when 300 applicants were selected for housing this fall, less than half of them responded.
Without the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program, some parents would have nothing to give their children for Christmas, said Marliena Brinkman.
Melanie Brooks Settles has heard customers reminisce about the days in the 1970s and '80s when Brainerd Road was the place for shopping.
Residents in College Hill and East Lake courts weren't included in a decision to sell or demolish the city's two largest public housing sites, and some don't even know they could lose their homes, advocates said Thursday.
A door-to-door appeal that began last winter has pulled together public housing and Section 8 residents from across Chattanooga who sought strength in numbers when they saw a threat to the places they call home.
Dr. Leon Bass fought for his country as a World War II soldier, but his country told him he wasn't good enough to drink from a public water fountain, he said.
Pius Mutubwa lived through years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a soldier's knock on the door could end in an entire family being annihilated, he said.
An 82-year-old father and pilot was found dead in Collegedale on Tuesday, still secured inside his single-engine airplane.
The body of an 82-year-old pilot and father, Clarence Andrews, was located at a plane crash near the Collegedale Airport today.
