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.

On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an approximately 2,800-pound statue off the granite pedestal ... of slavery kneeling below President Abraham Lincoln. A worker ties up the statue ...

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 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.

A statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln was taken down in Boston, CBS Boston reported Tuesday The Emancipation Group Memorial was removed after critics ...

The statue depicts Lincoln holding his hand over a kneeling ... The original work, which came to be known as the Emancipation Group, was purchased through donations by freed enslaved people ...

where several Confederate statues have been defaced. The memorial, erected in 1876, depicts Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation over a kneeling newly freed African American man ...

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Holmes Norton says she's well aware of the history of the statues she's fighting to take down. The "Emancipation Memorial," which sits in Lincoln Park near the ...

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 ...

Protesters hold signs during a small rally in support for the removal of the Emancipation Statue at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images But legal ...

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing ... Calls for the removal of the nearly 150-year-old Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park near Capitol Hill have intensified this week.

BOSTON — Boston's arts commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove a statue ... at Abraham Lincoln’s feet. The commission had fielded escalating complaints about the Emancipation ...