ABC/Eric McCandlessLauren Daigle performed her latest hit, "Thank God I Do," on American Idol s finale Sunday, May 21. If you heard it and thought it d make a good wedding song, well, Lauren says she unexpectedly found out it definitely is.
Lauren tells ABC Audio a couple of her songwriter pals told her that writing a song people want to play at their wedding is the ultimate for a writer. "They were talking about, Once you get a wedding song, that s it . you have made it. The wedding song is the thing you didn t know as a songwriter that you always wanted. "
"And I kind of chuckled. And I had already written Thank God I Do. We d already recorded it," she continues. She says, a few weeks later, "I was showing it to a friend who was getting married in like two or three weeks . And I look over and tears are filling his eyes. I was like, What? Are you crying? "
"He s like, Yeah, I just am imagining my wife. I m just imagining what sh
TAS Rights Management/Getty ImagesThere have been some big changes in Taylor Swift s life over the past few months, but she says she s doing just fine, thanks very much. In fact, she s better than fine.
Saturday night at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, fans captured Taylor on social media telling fans, "I ve just never been this happy in my life in all aspects of my life ever. And I just want to thank you for being a part of that."
She continued. "It s not just the tour. I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense. So I thought I d play this song which brings me a lot of happy memories." She then gave the Midnights track "Question.?" its tour premiere.
Taylor was forced to perform in the pouring rain Saturday night in Foxborough, but it was fitting, considering that she told the crowd that the first "rain show" she ever played was in that very stadium, back in 2011.
On Instagram, she posted a carousel of photos
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The national NAACP Board of Directors has issued a formal advisory against traveling to Florida, alleging the state has become "hostile toward African Americans" under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The move by the NAACP board calling on travelers nationwide to forgo visiting Florida comes as AAA Travel estimates 42.3 million Americans plan to hit the road this coming Memorial Day weekend.
The board voted unanimously to issue the travel advisory, saying the decision "comes in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools."
"Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communit
Mathews Museum Celebrates Memorial Day
With Special Military Memorabilia Exhibit
The Mathews Historical Museum and the Retired Officers of Mathews County (ROMCA) invite the public to .
ABC News(NEW YORK) When Roland Conner was a teenager in the 1990s, he was imprisoned on a marijuana-related charge.
Conner told ABC News that he struggled with the stigma of that criminal record for a long time, but recently his past has helped him and his family in a major way. In January, Conner opened Smacked! Village in Manhattan and became the first Black-owned legal cannabis store in New York City.
"It was surreal because a lot of the time you try to hide your past, especially when it s negative," he told ABC News Live.
Conner s story is one that New York officials, cannabis reform and criminal justice reform activists said can be replicated across the country to help the generations of Black Americans whose lives were marked by previous marijuana laws.
"We ve been talking about the opportunity to take what was a tool of systemic racism in some ways being implemented in communities like New York and use it now as a tool for reparative and restorative justice