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  • Toby Keith Performs At Surprise Hometown Concert For ‘Neighborhood Sessions’

    “My last single that came out is a song that I wrote that reminds me of living out here. I grew up getting gas at this place,” Toby Keith said before he opened his first set with his 2011 hit “Made in America” in his surprise concert.

    The country music singer-songwriter showed how proud he is not just of his country but of his Oklahoma roots in the concert he had in his old neighborhood in Norman for the Neighborhood Sessions.

    Neighborhood Sessions is a program that offers big-name recording artists in music a chance to give back to their communities with a local party.

    Toby Keith chose to have the invitation only concert at Hollywood Corners, a 1920s gas station he and business partnered Bob Thompson recently bought,  and remodeled into a delicatessen.

    Keith wanted to keep everything local for the surprise concert, just like the special guests he invited.

    The special guests Keith serenaded include people who had suffered loss and contributed to the community. He spent the day giving back to his community and recognizing local volunteers.

    Casual Oklahoma Tuesday night. Thanks @statefarm for the #neighborhoodsessions

    A video posted by Kaylee Harrington (@kaylee.harrington) on Sep 1, 2015 at 9:39pm PDT

    “Toby does so many things for this community,” former OU basketball standout Kevin Bookout said. “The OK Kids Korral and just bringing everyone here for this event, this is right up Toby’s alley. He always gives back to the community. ” Most of the 11 songs on Toby Keith’s set list were actually written in and inspired by his hometown. “If you hear one of the songs tonight that you sing along with, they were written either at my mother’s house three miles up the road or sitting here at my house,” Keith told the crowd.

    The hour-long television special Neighborhood Sessions Featuring Toby Keith is due to air on TBS in October, the same month the Oklahoma native will release his new album 35 MPH Town.

  • The Duggars: Why TLC Cancelled ’19 Kids and Counting’

    The Duggars have been front and center in the media since word of their son–Josh Duggar’s–sexual molestations of five underage girls while he was a teenager, hit the media. Now the Duggars are thrust into the media yet again with this week’s announcement that TLC has cancelled their reality show. The network announced on Thursday that they have cancelled 19 Kids and Counting.

    According to the Crimes Against Children Research Center, one in five girls and one in 20 boys become victims of sexual abuse. Three out of four young people who are sexually assaulted are victimized by an older sibling or someone they know well.

    The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that when a child reports sexual abuse to a parent, the parent or parents must take it seriously. They must also contact a local child protection agency or local law enforcement officials.

    That said, it’s hard to know which of these infractions weighed more heavily upon TLC when deciding whether or not to ditch the Duggars from their TV lineup. Were they more concerned with the fact that Josh Duggar is a known child molester or with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s means of handling the situation?

    Marjorie Kaplan is the group president of TLC, Animal Planet and the Velocity networks. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, she had the following to say.

    “We took it as an opportunity to step further than just ‘How do we protect ourselves?’ and step into ‘How do we protect our audience and protect children?’” Kaplan explained. “Our hope is to do more of that, in a way that’s thoughtful and respectful of the victims of child abuse–in the Duggar family and across America.”

    TLC has made plans to feature the Duggars–including Jill Duggar Dillard and Jessa Duggar Seewald, who are both admittedly victims of Josh Duggar’s sexual abuse–in an upcoming special documentary that deals with sexual abuse. RAINN (short for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and Darkness to Light are both advocacy groups that will be partnering with TLC for the documentary.

    The Duggars have appeared on TLC since 2008.