Cook: I wear a mask; I’m trying to understand why you don’t
Why aren't we all wearing masks?
Cook: ‘Intolerable, brutal, immoral’ – it is time for Jim Hammond to resign as Hamilton County sheriff
In July 2019, after a video surfaced of white officers beating, kicking and strip-searching a handcuffed Black man, 50 or so Black leaders stood on the Hamilton County Courthouse steps with one clear message for the sheriff.
Cook: The expansive, anti-racist Father’s Day heart
Can I see them as I see my own children? Trayvon? Ahmaud? Emmett? As a white father, can I see George Floyd as a brother or son?
Cook: All bodies welcome – a history of Chattanooga yoga
In these very difficult days, many of us have deepened our spiritual practices, like prayer and meditation. And yoga.
Cook: A plea to white Chattanooga
White Chattanooga, I know so many of you. Love so many of you.
Cook: Thousands of knees on the necks
Minneapolis is burning. Ecclesiastes tells us there is a time for all things, even burning.
Cook: Welcome our city’s Sustainable Food Center, big news for Highland Park
On Memorial Day, I think of my grandparents; he fought in World War II Italy and she, at home, raised two baby boomers, one of whom became my mom. My grandparents are buried at the National Cemetery, which will remain flagless Monday, a jarring pandemic image.
Cook: Ahmaud Arbery and running while black
For 30 years now, running has been part of who I am and what I do. There's freedom: on trails, at races, through neighborhoods and downtown. I've run thousands of times with hundreds of people in dozens of cities.
Cook: People feeding people – two local men and 8,207 meals
In mid-March, as the pandemic hit Chattanooga and hard times got harder, Troy Rogers bought $100 in groceries and called his friend, Tony Oliver, with a challenge:
Cook: Think like utopians – what kind of world do we want to reopen?
Go back? To normal? I'm not sure I want to.
