Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the ...

While President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until ...

On June 19 to June 21, 2025 in Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia, there will be multiple events to celebrate and honor ...

Juneteenth is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Here's how to celebrate in ...

also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, was removed by city workers early Tuesday from a downtown park. Officials had agreed to remove the statue in June after several ...

The controversial Emancipation Group Lincoln statue no longer sits in public downtown ... A flatbed truck trundled out of Lincoln Park on Tuesday morning, bearing the statue of former President ...

A statue of a slave kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln has been removed from Park Square in Boston ... The controversial Emancipation Group sculpture, designed by Boston artist Thomas ...

The “Emancipation Group” statue has stood in Park Square since 1879 ... It shows President Lincoln in a suit standing above a partially dressed former slave rising from broken shackles ...

The original work, which came to be known as the Emancipation Group ... hundreds of people gathered in Lincoln Park to discuss what should happen to the statue there. Boston's plans for its ...

The controversial Emancipation Group Memorial in Boston's Park Square was removed Tuesday morning. The statue depicts a formerly enslaved Black man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln.

“The designers of the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park in DC didn’t take into account the views of African Americans. It shows,” Norton wrote. “Blacks too fought to end enslavemen ...