Confederate past: Uproar over changing park names
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name...
Slideshow: N-word locales leave a mark nationally
SLIDESHOW - The slideshow below highlights some national locales that may get name recognition for the wrong reasons...
Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and centered near Louisa, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond...
TheGrio's 100: Faye Alexander Nelson, bringing green to industrial Detroit
TheGrio's 100 - Faye Alexander Nelson has spent the last eight years turning a strip of Detroit, once an industrial no-man's-land, into a beautiful riverfront park...
Ex-NFL star tackles child obesity with call for parks
VIDEO - Former NFL star Eddie George testified before Congress as a landscape architect and proponent of building urban parks...
