The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...

In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...

Looking at the Lincoln statue, known as the Emancipation Memorial or the Freedmen's Monument, Lee ponders the barely-clothed Black man at Lincoln's feet, who is looking not exactly heavenward, but ...

In honor of Black History Month, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is reintroducing a bill to remove the Lincoln statue from Lincoln Park. It's the first in a series of bills Norton plans to introduce ...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s arts commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet. The commission had fielded escalating ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave ...