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This year’s inductees into the National Film Registry include a record number of female directors and filmmakers of color as well as a new crop of movies ranging from a silent short film thriller, classic musicals and an acclaimed Batman film

Country music superstar Garth Brooks has more than just friends in low places. The Library of Congress said Wednesday the Grammy winner will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in March 2020. Previous recipients include Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Carole King and Willie Nelson. Brooks is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. His...

Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead’s finest songs, has died at age 78. Hunter died Monday at his Northern California home with his wife, Maureen, at his side, former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The family did not release a cause of death. “We...

Iowa Rep. Abby Finkenauer spent her time back home meeting with small-business owners and veterans, marching in a parade and delivering gifts to fire stations. In their upstate New York districts, Rep. Antonio Delgado visited farms, including one that’s part of a pilot program for hiring veterans, and Rep. Andy Brindisi kicked off a summer lunch program for kids. As...

If it’s Pride Month, there’s gotta be a parade. And there will be, in New York City and places around the country and world. But this year, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that fueled the fire for a global LGBTQ movement, there’s also a lot more. From symposiums to movie screenings, walking tours to art exhibits, and even...

A Rhode Island congressman is helping bring donated books from the Library of Congress libraries and schools in the state. U.S. Rep. David Cicilline says his office is joining the Library of Congress’s Surplus Book Program, which allows members of Congress to donate surplus books from the Library of Congress to local schools and nonprofit organizations.

Curators believe this is the earliest known photograph of the Underground Railroad leader.

One neighbor shared fond memories of the couple onto whose house crashed wreckage of the light plane that disintegrated as it fell from the sky Sunday in Yorba Linda. Of the six family members inside, only two survived. Authorities have yet to make positive identification of the deceased. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.

A preliminary federal report says the pilot whose plane broke up and crashed into a Southern California home was warned before takeoff that he was heading into bad weather.

NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Boston, necn and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced Monday that four local non-profit organizations will receive a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the first annual Project Innovation grant challenge.

It’s easy to forget that “Respect” wasn’t originally Aretha Franklin’s song. But the Queen of Soul sang it like it was made for her, and for only her.

The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.

For the fifth consecutive year, legendary musician Billy Joel will return to Fenway Park due to overwhelming demand.

Starting Jan. 1, the Library of Congress will change its policy from collecting every tweet to saving ones on a select and more scrutinizing basis....
With the new guidelines, the Library announced in a press release Tuesday, “the tweets collected and archived will be thematic and event-based, including events such as elections, or themes of ongoing national interest, e.g. public policy.”...
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The library selects movies for preservation because of their cultural, historic or artistic importance.

Tony Bennett, the beloved and durable interpreter of American standards whose chart-topping career spans seven decades, has been honored with this year’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Library of Congress announced the award Tuesday. The lifetime achievement award named for the duo of George and Ira Gershwin was created by Congress to honor singers and songwriters who entertain, inform...

Well that escalated quickly: The memes that dominate your Facebook feed will soon be etched in America’s official historical record. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress has announced the creation of the library’s Web Cultures Web Archive Collection, according to an announcement last week. The sampling of memes, reaction GIFs and image macros — funny, often wittily...

First it became the basis for an Oscar-nominated movie. Now, “Straight Outta Compton” — the groundbreaking album from rap group N.W.A. and a one-time flashpoint in the nation’s culture wars — has been selected for the prestigious National Recording Registry.

A 33-year-old doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston, has found a six-installment novel by Walt Whitman and published anonymously in 1852 — a discovery that upends what previously was believed about the 19th-century poet’s early career.

A poster of President Donald Trump that included a misspelling in a quote has been removed from the online store of the Library of Congress.