Reflecting on the significance of Juneteenth, lawmakers this week promised that Massachusetts will fight for and support ...

This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle. The business card has been in its ...

After more than 140 years, Boston has finally removed the Emancipation Memorial ... many have perceived the statue to depict a slave kneeling before Lincoln instead, and more than 12,000 people ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing ... has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group ...

Known as the Emancipation Group statue or the Freedman’s Memorial, the statue has been in place near Boston Common since 1879 and depicts Lincoln standing over a newly freed slave, Archer Alexander.

A statue depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln's feet in Boston. Source: AP A statue of Abraham Lincoln next to a kneeling, newly-freed slave has been was removed in Boston ...

The controversial Emancipation Group Lincoln statue no longer sits in public downtown, though the Boston Art Commission said it will end up in a new home. A flatbed truck trundled out of Lincoln ...

The City of Boston website says that the statue “was a donation to ... standing Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln holds the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand.” A spokeswoman for the mayor ...

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 has ...

Workers dismantled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston Tuesday ... The original work, which came to be known as the Emancipation Group, was purchased through donations by freed enslaved people ...