Early leader for most unexpected headline of the week. Learning over the last year that Dolly isn't what I'd imagined in my head has been pretty cool.
She's an old white lady from Tennessee. Should I assume things? No, but I'm guilty of it. Learning over the last year that she invested in the black community, is pro-BLM, and gave money to Vanderbilt for vaccine research was pleasantly surprising for me.
It’s weird but I get the GOP even less if they can possibly ever lose to these feckless, moronic idiots.
My kids won a raffle when they were in the Nicu where they get a book a month for their first five years from Dolly’s foundation. The books have had very diverse main characters and shown a lot of very progressive ideals regarding race, marriage etc. she is one of the good ones.
1. I wasn’t thinking about it through politics (it making people vote R instead of D) but real life consequences. 2. I guess I misunderstood what you meant by “putting headlines” on it. I thought you meant literal headlines like the media focusing on it and not Pelosi talking about it. 3. I never said or implied that the Jan 6 traitors should be ignored.
Didn't realize it had been 3 years ago but had to go back to when she changed the name of her restaurant show bc it was called Dixie Stampede. I wish more people were so open about admitting errors and just fixing it. “There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that,” the 74-year-old singer/songwriter/actress and businesswoman confessed. “When they said ‘Dixie’ was an offensive word, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to offend anybody. This is a business. We’ll just call it the Stampede.’ As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don’t be a dumbass. That’s where my heart is. I would never dream of hurting anybody on purpose.”
It’s fucking rad and the books are definitely diverse topics that average white kids might not otherwise have access to. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/dolly-parton-imagination-library-1138409/
Not available here and doesn't seem like you can sign up to pay for them. https://imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability/
Yeah I guess it is probably region specific because it looks like it runs through local participating arms.
Posted it before, but one of the Trillbillies episodes had a professor (I think she's at WVU) from Ole Miss on who did a ton of her dissertation work on literacy programs in the south and how a lot of Dolly's programs aren't actually completely free. Tanya, one of the hosts, said that the imagination library was one for the programs she worked with in a rural Kentucky county and that they had to use most of their literacy budget on setting up an Imagination Library. Dolly still has done a ton of good with a lot of other things though.
From WP Parton purchased the 6,317-square-foot Mission-style complex in Nashville in February 1997, according to property records. David Ewing, a longtime Nashville historian, told The Washington Post that Parton’s investment came when many recording artists did not look toward the Sevier Park neighborhood, now known as 12 South, to set up their businesses. “We’re just hearing now, because of the Black Lives Matter movement, how down for the cause Dolly has always been — even when others in the music industry weren’t,” Ewing said. “Dolly Parton could have built and bought any piece of property in Nashville. But you would have to have gone out of your way to buy in the 12 South neighborhood, because no Realtor would have shown Dolly that lot to buy.” At the time, the neighborhood was “African American funeral homes, businesses and churches,” Ewing said. Now, 12 South is one of the hottest neighborhoods in Nashville, he said. “But it really kind of all began to be put on the map when Dolly quietly invested in the area,” Ewing said. Ewing noted that Parton’s investment in a Black neighborhood is consistent with the beloved star’s track record. In the past year, Parton has made headlines for investing $1 million to develop Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and coming out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “She’s never cared about race or gender or the other things people in the South have judged or restricted others about,” Ewing said. “The fact that Dolly would buy in what was a Black neighborhood was a very Dolly thing to do.”
so the extension requires a bill that will get torpedo'd in the senate and the supreme court will overturn any cdc extension, and there's tons of money cities/states haven't used for paying back rent thats as far as i've gotten with figuring it out because the twitter discourse on this is useless
The entire Eviction situation shows how fucking insanely evil this country is, this is fucking 2008 all over again.
Millions of people on the streets in the middle of a pandemic. Third world fucking country with a gucci belt y'all