The statue at issue is the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Square and it shows the 16th president standing over a kneeling slave, his shackles broken. “A race set free and the country at peace ...

The statue, a replica of one in Washington, D.C., is called the Emancipation Memorial or Emancipation Group, and was donated to the city in 1879 to celebrate Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves.

Hundreds gathered Tuesday night to protest The Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park. It was originally designed to depict an enslaved person, freed from his shackles, moving toward freedom in the ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants the ...

The Lincoln Park “Emancipation” statue in D.C., which depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling, freed enslaved man, is among the monuments drawing nationwide scrutiny.

A statue of a freed slave kneeling at the feet of Abraham Lincoln was removed from downtown Boston early Tuesday. The Emancipation Memorial featuring the former president was taken down by city ...

Workers remove the “Emancipation Group” statue from its pedestal in Park Square. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It's not a sight you see every day. On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an ...

A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday morning, according to the mayor’s office. The “Emancipation Group” statue has ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.