It's a copy of an identical monument that was erected in Washington, DC's Lincoln ... argue that while the Emancipation Proclamation changed the course of history, the statue oversimplifies ...

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 ...

Barriers are erected around the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, which depicts a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, June 25, 2020.

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.” ...

House Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Washington ... legislation to remove the statue Wednesday – the first day of Black ...

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 ...

A towering barrier was erected around the controversial Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC — which depicts a ... The move to defend the statue comes after President Trump sent 400 unarmed ...

Separated by about three miles and 116 years, two Washington ... statue that gives the park its name has long been a source of controversy and even resentment. Dedicated in 1876, the Emancipation ...

As public officials take a fresh look at statues of historical ... from Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. “The designers of the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park in DC didn’t take into ...

READ MORE: DC Lincoln Park ‘Emancipation’ statue among ... she will introduce legislation to remove the statue from Lincoln Park, Washington's WJLA_TV reported. RELATED: President Trump ...