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People this famous would never let you anywhere near their houses when they were alive, but now you can walk right inside!

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a ...

Trump’s 2021 executive order named 244 people to include in a garden of American heroes, and $40 million was allotted this ...

Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, is pleading with the country’s highest appeals court. On Thursday, a lower appeals court tossed out a conviction […] ...

Up Close sits down with Iris Rodriguez-Rosa to discuss her appointment, what it means for the community and what she hopes to do during her tenure as parks commissioner.

Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis. I was struck by the number of immigrants who were listed as “American heroes.” These were people who were born in other countries and then ...

Gordon Parks: Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, he helped create the “ blaxploitation ”genre in film, directed movies like “The Learning Tree” and “Shaft.” ...

Houston-born camp director Jane Ragsdale among at least 59 dead in catastrophic Kerr County floods By Rebekah F. Ward, Shakari Briggs, Staff writer Updated July 5, 2025 7:59 p.m.

Jane Ragsdale, the beloved director of Camp Heart O' the Hills in Kerr County, is dead after the region was hit by catastrophic flooding, the camp said.

By late afternoon, the state parks had achieved "turnaround" capacity, meaning that more vehicles were exiting than entering, state officials said.

President Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to look at raising revenue at national parks by increasing entry fees for foreign tourists.