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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lincoln Emancipation Statue in Boston is a replica of the one that sits in Lincoln Park in Washington D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

Boston’s Statue of Abraham Lincoln Standing Over a Kneeling Enslaved Man Will Be Removed. A petition calling for the statue's removal garnered over 12,000 signatures in just three weeks.

The Abraham Lincoln Statue, erected in 1879, by Thomas Ball, is viewed in Park Square in Boston, Massachusetts on June 16, 2020. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images 2020-07-01T18:23:06Z ...

Boston’s mayor is in favor of taking down a local statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing before a freed black man, after a petition was launched for its removal, his office says.

The statue depicts President Abraham Lincoln with one hand raised standing above a half-clothed freed slave, who has broken chains on his wrists and appears to be kneeling at Lincoln’s feet.

Boston’s mayor is considering the fate of a public statue depicting former President Abraham Lincoln standing before a freed black man after a petition called for its removal. The statue in the ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet ... More than 12,000 people had signed a petition demanding the statue’s removal and Boston’s public arts ...

BOSTON — Boston’s arts commission has voted unanimously to remove a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet. The commission, which made the decision Tuesday ...