Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 86; sunny
- What to eat: Spicy ramen salad, featuring pasta, peanut butter, soy sauce and tender snow peas.
- What to do: Watch “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” a celebration of Bourdain’s life – not a forensic inquiry.
- What we’re excited about: GM delivering affordable luxury with this Corvette Stingray.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
This weekend we celebrate Juneteenth, in observance of the day in 1865 when word of their freedom reached enslaved people in Texas.
According to Carmen Davis, a program management coordinator in community relations at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, “It’s not just a Black American holiday – it’s an American holiday, and it’s American history.”
This year, Davis is one of 6,500 BlueCross employees who will have a paid day off to commemorate the effective end of slavery in the United States, which came more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.