University of Tennessee sociologist Deadric T. Williams makes a point during his 2024 “Beyond the Knife” lecture, titled “Structural Racism and Persistent Racial Inequality.” Williams’ lecture on Feb. 22 was the fourth annual talk in the “Beyond the Knife” endowed lectureship, which the Department of Surgery established following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 to engage the Jacobs School in difficult conversations surrounding racism and health care in the U.S. Photo: Sandra Kicman