Booker T Washington National Monument will commemorate the 160th anniversary of the emancipation of Booker T Washington with ...

The eight-foot-tall bronze statue will be unveiled on September 24 in Emancipation Hall before joining the National Statuary Hall Collection. Cash's likeness will depict him holding a Bible and a ...

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 ...

Cornell Brooks, the former President and CEO of the NAACP whose contract expired in May, speaks to a crowd in Emancipation Park before the start of The March to Confront White Sup ...

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images WASHINGTON—Protesters said they are planning to topple a statue of Abraham Lincoln ... the height of the Civil War. The Emancipation Memorial, erected in 1876 ...

Senator-elect Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, left, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, second left, Arline Brady, great-granddaughter of Martha Hughes Cannon, center right, and Sen ...

it will be the first statue to represent the city. 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 ...

The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation ... Washington, D.C., in 1876. Three years later, the copy was installed in Boston. Calls are mounting for the removal of both statues. (AP Photo ...