The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

The state’s planning for the emancipation monument is unfolding separately from the city of Richmond’s efforts to re-examine Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, but the MLK commission is ...

A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move from the atrium of a government office building to Capitol Hill’s Emancipation ...

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 ...

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The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...

After more than 140 years, Boston has finally removed the Emancipation Memorial statue standing in a park just off Boston Common. Having stood there since 1879, the statue is based on an identical ...

House Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., which they said portrays a racially insensitive image of President Abraham ...

As Black History Month gets underway, we take a look at the city’s links to slavery - from the buildings it funded to the statues and street names that ... names are well represented in the Slavery ...

The monument includes two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant after being newly freed from slavery The city of Richmond, Virginia has a new monument. The Emancipation and ...

The "Emancipation and Freedom Monument" honors ... And the unveiling on Brown's Island comes two weeks after Robert E. Lee's statue was removed from Monument Avenue about two miles away.

The Emancipation and Freedom Monument, designed by Oregon sculptor Thomas Jay Warren, comprises two 12-foot bronze statues depicting a man and a woman carrying an infant, newly freed from slavery ...