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Angela Dennis is an award-winning reporter with Knox News who has spent her journalistic career reframing the way marginalized communities are covered in Knoxville. Dennis is most notable for her approach to race, equity and justice reporting by intersecting topics of issues through historical and contemporary lenses. Dennis was raised in the Tampa Bay area of Florida but was born in Knoxville. In 2008, she came back to her roots but not as a journalist. Dennis did a lot of inner-city and nonpro...

The stories, culture, and history of Black Appalachia are getting a national spotlight on CNN, thanks in part to our very own Angela Dennis.

Dennis covers social justice, race, and equity for Knox News. But she also co-hosts the East Tennessee PBS Black in Appalachia podcast along with Enkeshi El-Amin. The podcast has received critical acclaim for sharing the Black stories in an area that has often been depicted as “rural, rugged, and white.”

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Reporter Angela Dennis joined Knox News last year and hit the ground running at a time when people of color in Knoxville and across the nation were galvanized to renew the movement for solutions to generational inequities in American society.

These issues are at the forefront of Knox News' coverage, with Dennis leading many of the newsroom's efforts to expand and deepen solution-oriented coverage.

The community has noticed a change, and it's one worth celebrating.

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Angela Dennis brings a passion for truth-telling to all facets of her professional career. As the co-host of the podcast Black in Appalachia, garnering national attention, she highlights the history and culture of Black communities in the region. After she had been selected by the Knox.biz team for this year's 40 Under 40 class, she was hired by Knox News as a full-time journalist to cover issues at the intersection of race and equity through both contemporary and historical lenses.You are grant...

Angela Dennis has covered stories that connect with the community since joining Knox News in 2020, tackling gun violence and implicit bias in schools as well as stories of hope, celebration and those fiercely fighting for change.But she wants to do more, and a new opportunity will help her do just that.Dennis has been selected for the 2023 Maynard 200 fellowship, a national program by the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education to advance training and mentorship to journalists of co...