WASHINGTON, DC (7News) — A D.C. lawmaker is working to remove a civil rights statue for the second time. The The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial, was dedicated in ...

Protesters are planning to return to Lincoln Park Friday to denounce and urge the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln, paid for by people who had been enslaved, that celebrates emancipation and ...

Separated by about three miles and 116 years, two Washington ... statue that gives the park its name has long been a source of controversy and even resentment. Dedicated in 1876, the Emancipation ...

House Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Washington ... legislation to remove the statue Wednesday – the first day of Black ...

The Lincoln Park Emancipation statue that is drawing scrutiny depicting ... Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images "This prominent location ...

Protesters for and against the removal of the Emancipation Memorial debate in Lincoln Park on June 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The funds to build the statue were ...

A memorial Washington, DC depicts Lincoln standing over a Black man. It's caused a rift between older Black DC residents, who want to keep the statue ... The Emancipation Memorial depicts ...

The Emancipation Hall holds two statues for each state. Statues of notable people that the state can call their own. Washington D.C. is not a state and therefore is not represented. The federal ...

It's a copy of an identical monument that was erected in Washington, DC's Lincoln ... argue that while the Emancipation Proclamation changed the course of history, the statue oversimplifies ...

D.C. Council candidate Marcus Goodwin, who is helping lead the charge to remove the controversial Emancipation ... to remove the statue from Lincoln Park, Washington's WJLA-TV reported.

Emancipation Day honors the day slavery ended in Washington, D.C. after President Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862. District residents marked the first anniversary after ...