Protesters are planning to return to Lincoln Park Friday to denounce and urge the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln, paid for by people who had been enslaved, that celebrates emancipation and ...

Lincoln deserves statues but the Emancipation Memorial misleads on him and Black history Lincoln would have bristled at the statue and the 'Great Emancipator' honorific. He was a reluctant ...

Lincoln emancipation statue triggers debate on how the Black experience should be commemorated Even descendants of the former slave depicted in the memorial are split over whether it should remain ...

A statue that depicts a formerly enslaved man kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln's feet rests on a pedestal in Boston in June. On Dec. 29, the statue was removed.

Workers dismantled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston Tuesday, after the city agreed with protesters who say the memorial is demeaning and lacks proper context. The statue depicts Lincoln ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.

Re “Petition calls for Lincoln statue to be taken down” by Meghan E. Irons (Metro, June 13): The Emancipation Monument in Boston’s Park Square is a copy of the one in Lincoln Park in ...

The Lincoln Park “Emancipation” statue in D.C., which depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling, freed enslaved man, is among the monuments drawing nationwide scrutiny.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed Black man appearing to kneel at his feet has been removed from its downtown Boston perch.

Hundreds gathered Tuesday night to protest The Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park. It was originally designed to depict an enslaved person, freed from his shackles, moving toward freedom in the ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.