As the sun sets over our Tennessee mountain home, we're grateful for a supporter of the Smokies who has always carried these mountains in her heart. 🌄💛Thank you, Dolly, for sharing your love for the Great Smoky Mountains with the world.
Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide.
At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖
“Community means a lot. When I was younger, there were players before me that used to give back…I probably wouldn’t be here without them, and it means a lot. You never know who you’re touching, you never know who you’re giving back to, you never know who looks up to you, so I think those aspects mean a lot to me.”
We partnered with our friends at @AnthemBCBS and the Atlanta Dream to give back to the Indianapolis & Atlanta communities, carrying forward the impact that others made on us 🫶
Just interviewed Nyck Harbor. Right after we finished, he saw former Gamecock QB Stephen Garcia standing off to the side- Garcia is currently battling cancer.
Nyck asked if he could pray with him.. they embraced and said a prayer together in a really touching moment.
@GamecockFB ❤️
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.