Cook: How to age wisely: the generational divide and ways to bridge it
Six months...and three weeks.
Cook: How do we erase the swastikas of the heart?
The large swastikas spray-painted on the Walnut Street Bridge and art district are gone now.
Cook: Let’s talk about being white on Signal Mountain
This isn't really about the books.
Cook: If we can’t forgive former Whitwell Elementary’s David Smith, who can we forgive?
Let's forgive David Smith.
Cook: Listening to outspoken and unapologetic Black women
How are the voices of Black women received in this city and county? Especially outspoken, unapologetic Black women?
Cook: Now is the best time to be a teacher
This week, Hamilton County returned to school.
Cook: Let us now praise these essential workers
On Friday, July 31, hundreds of local Republican leaders attended an annual fundraiser at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
Cook: John Lewis and how to love one another
I asked a friend - she's Black - what John Lewis meant to her. "Hope," she said.
Cook: A letter to my daughter about fear
Fear hurts. It's not like love, which opens and embraces. Fear tightens, constricts and hardens, the spirit's form of arteriosclerosis. When I feel afraid, my abdomen and chest feel like they're being squished and squeezed into a too-small box.
Cook: Megaphones, everywhere: how to find silence in loud times
We have reached the end of privatized prisons in Hamilton County.
