In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
A mother who helped her blind daughter graduate from law school by attending every class and reading textbooks aloud for four years was awarded an honorary law degree in recognition of her extraordinary dedication.
In July 2018, Sakarya University awarded an honorary law degree to Havva Kul alongside her visually impaired daughter, Berru Merve Kul, during the school’s graduation ceremony. With limited access to Braille textbooks and audio learning resources, Havva became her daughter’s primary source of academic support throughout law school.
For four years, she accompanied Berru to every class, took notes, and helped her keep up with coursework requirements. At home, she spent countless hours reading law textbooks, case studies, and legal codes aloud so her daughter could prepare for exams. In recognition of her extraordinary dedication, Faculty Dean Professor Mahmut Bilen invited Havva to the stage and presented her with a special degree certificate, earning a standing ovation from the audience.
🚨 BREAKING: BOMBSHELL Minnesota auditor report just dropped and it confirms Tim Walz's Department of Human Services FABRICATED RECORDS and did not verify grant recipients, tried COVERING THEIR TRACKS, enabling massive fraud
It just got 10,000X worse. WALZ MUST RESIGN.
"Perhaps the most EXPLOSIVE revelation is that managers within DHS tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating NEW DOCUMENTS." 🤯
"Sent millions of dollars out the door in grants without making proper checks into who was receiving them. And that is not even the most jaw-dropping finding!"
"One outrageous example, the auditors found a grantee that was paid $672,000 for one month of work WITHOUT ANY INFO on what they do!"
"And the audit says the grant manager who paid it then left DHS a couple days later and became a paid consultant for that company!"
"TO ME, THAT'S CRIMINAL."
"During the audit multiple DHS managers backdated or created new documents to try to cover their tracks."
WOW. THIS IS BAD.
#TEXANS OWNER CAL MCNAIR WITH ONE OF THE FUNNIEST TIKTOKS OF ALL TIME AFTER CJ STROUD IGNORED HIM.
🤣🤣🤣
CRYING OF LAUGHTER WATCHING THIS. HE DID THIS ALL DAY LONG.
🔥 BREAKING: Bad Bunny Sparks Major Backlash After SNL Super Bowl Comment 🔥
During his SNL monologue, Bad Bunny stirred the pot saying:
“You’ve got four months to learn Spanish if you wanna understand my lyrics at the Super Bowl.” 🇵🇷🎤
Fans were already beefing in the comments when 50 Cent came swinging outta nowhere like it’s 2003 again.
At first, he tried to keep it chill:
“I respect what he’s doing, but telling Americans to ‘learn Spanish’ for the Super Bowl? Bro, this ain’t Duolingo halftime.” 💀
Then he really let it fly:
“Last I checked, music’s supposed to bring people together — not make us download Rosetta Stone.” 💥😂
Twitter’s on fire. What side are YOU on? 👀🔥
Defensive players cannot win.
- Hits him literally standing up straight.
Not high, not low, no helmet involved.
- Doesn’t land on him, doesn’t even take him to the ground.
- Pulls his hands off to emphasize that he’s not doing anything extra.
What do you want him to do?!?!
"I learned a lot from Coach Saban" ~ @Belichick_B
"In all the time of us being friends I never thought I would say that you're full of shit 😂😂
I learned a lot more from you than you learned from me" ~ Coach Saban #CollegeGameDay