BOSTON (CBS) -- The Emancipation Group statue in Park Square will be removed. The Boston Art Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to take out the controversial memorial. "As we continue our ...

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 ...

The statue, a replica of one in Washington, D.C., is called the Emancipation Memorial or Emancipation Group, and was donated to the city in 1879 to celebrate Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves.

IT WAS REMOVED THIS MORNING. THE CONTROVERSIAL EMANCIPATION MEMORIAL SCULPTURE LIFTED FROM THE BASE IT SAT ON FOR MORE THAN 140 YEARS. >> FOR ME, IT WAS A MOMENT I DIDN’T WANT TO MISS.

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