Chattanooga Magazine

• Disease Symptoms You May Think Are Normal (But They’re Not) May 13, 2024
  We often experience symptoms but don’t even know it. Why? Sometimes we write it off as “growing pains” or “just something that happens as you get older.” Or even still, your momma might tell you to just walk it off.  As tough and as strong as we perceive ourselves to be, there are some symptoms […]
• Black-owned bank receives $17M from state’s reparations fund May 13, 2024
  EVANSTON, IL — Evanston has etched its name in history twice over. In a landmark decision, the city established the first government-funded reparations program in the U.S. to address the systemic racism faced by Black residents between 1919 and 1969, according to Essence. Now, five years later, another groundbreaking move is multiplying the impact of […]
• Tennessee’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Program, which has paid over $350 million to victims, wants victim assistance groups to know it’s a resource May 13, 2024
  Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Treasury’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Program has paid more than $350 million to victims of violent crime in Tennessee since the program’s inception in 1982. During that time, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Program has served tens of thousands of innocent victims who had no other means of helping to […]