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 ...

The Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Photo: Olivier Douliery/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ...

Archer Alexander was the real-life model for the freed slave in the controversial Emancipation Memorial, which racial justice protesters in D.C. have demanded be removed. But Alexander didn't wait ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — For the second night this week, "The Freedom Neighborhood" has organized a rally at the base of the Emancipation Monument in Lincoln Park, calling for the removal of the statue ...

Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman ... In this June 25, 2020, file photo, a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at President ...

Black conservatives on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to save the Emancipation Memorial, the statue of Abraham Lincoln and freed slave Archer Alexander now under attack by Democrats and Black Lives ...