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Rick Held

An Open Letter to Public Enemy #1

Dear Gloria Johnson –

4 min readJul 3, 2023

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An Open Letter to Public Enemy #1

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Rick Held

A Brief History of Sacred and Haunting

George Clinton started cutting singles with an obscure r&b band out of Jersey in the early 60s called the Parliaments (had one early hit I…

4 min readNov 22, 2021

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A Brief History of Sacred and Haunting

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Rick Held

Lawyers Guns & $

1 min readAug 6, 2021

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Lawyers Guns & $

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Rick Held

Love (and Rap) is the Answer

The Question: How do teenagers who just went through the most violent semester ever in the history of their high school, take care of…

3 min readJul 7, 2021

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Love (and Rap) is the Answer

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Rick Held

Public Safety Playbook

Cities United is clear that community-led and community-driven approaches to treating violence will not be an easy, cheap, or comfortable…

6 min readJun 21, 2021

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Public Safety Playbook

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Rick Held

How to Paint Miracles

Jackie Holloway knows firsthand that art can change behavior, and sometimes lives, for the better.

6 min readJun 21, 2021

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How to Paint Miracles

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Rick Held

On the Love of Wings (Did you see what I did there?!)

A Scruffy City restaurant review

6 min readJun 10, 2021

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On the Love of Wings (Did you see what I did there?!)

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Rick Held

Protecting Our People

After 5 high school students gunned down so far this year, how does East Knoxville handle the home stretch of the most harrowing semester…

8 min readMay 12, 2021

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Protecting Our People

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Rick Held

A Mother’s Trial

Editors note: This the first story we’ve published by our newest correspondent, Rick Held. Although he’s got a respectable amount of…

10 min readMay 11, 2021

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A Mother’s Trial

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Rick Held

The Inner-city Grass Gets Mowed

This year, as it turned out, black voters really turned out — more than for any other mayoral election in at least a generation.

6 min readDec 27, 2019

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The Inner-city Grass Gets Mowed

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Rick Held

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Organizer and instigator of visionary and practical leadership for social, economic, environmental, & racial justice & equity. By any creative means necessary.

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