A crowd of hundreds turned out to get the first glimpses of the W.E.B. Du Bois statue at Mason Public Library on Saturday, ...

Boston Removes Statue of Slave Kneeling Before Abraham Lincoln: The statue has stood in Boston since 1879.

The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, that was erected in Lincoln Park, in Washington, D.C., in 1876.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in ...

(AP) - A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its ...

The city of Boston removed a statue of a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Lincoln from one of its parks Tuesday, months after nation-wide protests over racial injustice.

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.

The Emancipation Group, which is a replica of a statue in Washington D.C., was installed in 1879. The monument depicts Lincoln standing over a kneeling Archer Alexander, a Black man who helped the ...

A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday morning, according to the mayor’s office.