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Calls to take down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston's Park Square, between the Park Plaza and the Transportation Building, are growing. The statue of President Lincoln, the Great Empancipator ...
The Abraham Lincoln Statue by Thomas Ball in Boston, Massachusetts on June 16, 2020. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images. This year, amidst the onslaught of the coronavirus and the racial ...
Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet : Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice Emancipation Memorial has stood in Park Square since 1879. It is a ...
A statue that depicts a freed enslaved man kneeling at Abraham Lincoln's feet rests on a pedestal, Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Boston. The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation Memorial ...
The Abraham Lincoln Statue, erected in 1879, by Thomas Ball, is viewed in Park Square in Boston, Massachusetts on June 16, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) *A statue in Boston depicting a ...
Read More FILE – In this June 25, 2020, file photo, a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln’s feet rests on a pedestal in Boston.
A statue of a formerly enslaved man named Alexander Archer kneeling at the foot of President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday from downtown Boston. The monument, titled “Emancipation Group ...
When Boston artist Tory Bullock looks at the Emancipation Memorial in Boston's Park Square, he sees subservience instead of freedom. Designed and erected in 1876, the statue depicts Lincoln ...
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 ...
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 ...