Leah Hunter

A journalist on the path to discover how history and culture intertwine to explain the now...

Ever since Leah Hunter was a young girl, she’s been inquisitive about the world around her. Having journaled since age four, she’s devoted herself to penning details to blank pages.

Leah covers health care and North Georgia for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. She holds Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and Spanish, in addition to having minored in broadcasting. 

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Walker County African American Museum and Cultural Center highlights all cultures’ history | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Beverly Foster's love of history goes back to when she was in first grade. In college, she didn't originally seek a history degree, but after working as a teacher to help her husband provide for their children, she eventually returned to school, adding American history and African American studies to her major. At the Atlanta History Center, Foster participated in a fellowship program, where she learned how to operate a museum, she said. She uses those skills in her volunteer position as museum di...
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Google Super Bowl ad featured LaFayette accessibility advocate and travel blogger Cory Lee | Chattanooga Times Free Press

On Sunday night, millions tuned in to watch Super Bowl LIX, featuring a matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, and a halftime performance by Kendrick Lamar and SZA. The high-stakes game also spotlighted a resident from LaFayette, Georgia, in a Google commercial during one of its prominent commercial breaks.
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From the magazine: One good week - Talisman

Editor’s Note: This article was originally released in the WKU Talisman print magazine on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Click here to read more articles from the Talisman’s semesterly print magazine.


Madison Weis was in Cyprus during her semester at sea when she realized the severe bloating she felt in her stomach during her periods and the numbness in her legs were abnormal compared to other girls’ menstrual cycles within the program.


“I just thought that that’s what happens when your period...
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‘Ticking time bomb of a cyst’: Chattanooga nonprofit was a lifesaver for woman with endometriosis

Abigail Little, 30, has lived with the effects of moderate to severe endometriosis, an incurable gynecological disease, since her youth and has been on birth control since age 14.

Endometriosis occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, according to the World Health Organization, and it affects 10% of reproductive-age women and girls worldwide. While endometriosis typically appears in the lower abdomen and pelvic areas, Little said the disease has spread to her kidneys, bladder and intestines.
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In Clínica Médicos’ scholar program, students help patients

Dr. Kelly Rodney Arnold, the founder and medical director of Clínica Médicos, wanted to create a hands-on experience for students journeying toward medical school.

Seeing fertile ground to create an experience similar to her own as a medical scholar, Rodney Arnold planted seeds, offering six students the chance to assist physicians in an internship that blossomed into the Clínica Scholars Program.
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'Ethiopia is coffee': Abol Cafe transports you to another world through scent and ceremony

Stepping through the doors of the Abol Cafe in Louisville's Crescent Hill neighborhood is like stepping into a piece of Ethiopia.

A hostess adorned in a kemi dress — a traditional garment from the East African nation — washes, grinds and roasts coffee beans with a religious-like devotion as jazz music filtered through the air. When she's satisfied, the coffee is poured from a jebena pot into teacups embellished with Ethiopian tilet patterns.

This is just the start of the jebena buna, a traditi...