Mount Rushmore was named for Charles E. Rushmore, a White New York City lawyer who visited the area in 1884. About a decade earlier, however, Lakota medicine man Nicolas Black Elk named it the Six ...

It’s Black History Month, and Sam is doing something a little different: building a Black Hollywood Mount Rushmore!

but he wouldn’t be on the Black Mount Rushmore. Having dinner with Booker T. Washington at the White House ain’t enough.

“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of NDN ...

Mount Rushmore to host fireworks for US 250th birthday in 2026, as Gov. Rhoden invites President Trump to South Dakota ...

A federal judge in 2021 halted additional fireworks shows at Mount Rushmore, and no more shows have occurred since.

Mount Rushmore will host an Independence Day-themed fireworks display next year, bringing worldwide attention to the national ...

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden announced that the state has reached an agreement with the federal government to host a ...