Hundreds of people in Anacostia started a new tradition this Juneteenth holiday, celebrating a piece of Black DC history with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is hailing Frederick Douglass for his work to bring about equal justice, leading a series of tributes at the unveiling of a statue of the 19th-century ...

Crowds gather around the Martha Hughes Cannon statue for pictures after it was installed at dedication ceremony in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. (John ...

The eight-foot-tall bronze statue will be unveiled on September 24 in Emancipation Hall before joining the National Statuary Hall Collection. ... Johnny Cash To Receive Statue In Washington DC.

The statue will be unveiled at a ceremony of Sept. 24 at Emancipation Hall in the Capitol's Visitor Center alongside political leaders and Cash's family. Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark., and died ...

The Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin didn’t quite know what to do with a controversial emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln in its collection until Sanford Biggers stepped in with an idea.

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has renewed her call to remove the Emancipation Statue from Lincoln Park. She said she doesn’t like how a freed slave kneels before ...

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 ...

The second statue of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, creator of the plan for D.C., will be unveiled in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Feb. 28.

Washington, DC Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton says Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation statue “fails to note how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation.” AP Photo ...

ROCKBRIDGE Co, Va. (WDBJ) - Archer Alexander is known to be the face of the Emancipation. His statue sits right next to Abraham Lincoln’s in Washington, D.C. and Boston, but he also has roots in ...