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Lincoln Park saw an uneasy standoff Thursday night ... monument found that authorities had set up fencing around the Emancipation statue and police were out in force in the park.
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.
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.
A statue of President Abraham Lincoln ... Calls for the removal of the nearly 150-year-old Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park near Capitol Hill have intensified this week.
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.
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — 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 ...
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 ...
The Emancipation Memorial commemorates President Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation freeing enslaved people in the rebel states at the height of the Civil War. Erected in 1876 in Capitol Hill's Lincoln Park, ...
“This statue has been controversial from the start. It is time it was placed in a museum.” In addition to Lincoln Park being NPS land, the Emancipation Memorial contributes to the Civil War ...
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), Washington, D.C.’s nonvoting representative in the House, is introducing a bill to remove the Emancipation Statue from the city’s Lincoln Park. “The designers ...
WASHINGTON — Two people were injured in a car crash in Lincoln Park Thursday morning, the United States Park Police said. Around 5:41 a.m. Park Police officers were dispatched to Lincoln Park ...
The controversial Emancipation Group Memorial in Boston's Park Square was removed Tuesday morning. The statue depicts a formerly enslaved Black man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln.