His sculptures examine how the body is so often objectified and repurposed for someone else’s convenience or utility.

The statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns has been approved by the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol, which is expected to be unveiled as part of the National ...

Zak Ové reframes dominant narratives about the African diaspora, interrogating the past to posit what he calls "potential ...

The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state ...

Several hundred gather on Juneteenth to dedicate “Towards Freedom,” a monumental depiction of Harriet and Lewis Hayden who ...

While rainfall canceled many outdoor Juneteenth events in downtown Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ ...

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...

Cash, whose statue is located in the Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol ... Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said. The bronze statue was made by Kevin Kresse, a Little Rock-based painter and sculptor.

"Thank you Kevin Kresse for capturing his very essence in bronze," Rosanne Cash ... tears during the unveiling ceremony of a statue of Johnny Cash in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on ...

The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation ... with the unveiling of a bronze statue of the woman who chose ...

Lee was taken down 2 miles away. The Emancipation and Freedom Monument portrays two 12-foot bronze statues of a man, a woman and an infant after being freed from slavery. The woman is holding the ...

Now visitors will see two bronze statues dedicated to African American ... The new monument just across town is entitled the Emancipation and Freedom Monument. The project is the work of the ...