The statue at issue is the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Square and it shows the 16th president standing over a kneeling slave, his shackles broken. “A race set free and the country at peace ...

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 statue by Thomas Ball depicts a Black man, shirtless and on his knees, in front of a clothed and standing Abraham Lincoln. In one hand, Lincoln holds a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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.

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.

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, moving toward freedom in the ...

Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., said Friday that "cancel culture has become ignorant culture," reacting to protesters who gathered in Washington, D.C. to rally against a statue of Abraham Lincoln ...

The statue, which stood in Park Square since 1879, is a copy of Thomas Ball's monument that still stands in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park. The original work, which came to be known as the ...

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 ...

Workers remove the “Emancipation Group” statue from its pedestal in Park Square. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It's not a sight you see every day. On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an ...

The bronze memorial statue was erected in 1876 to honor Abraham Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation. Protesters said they will return Friday to tear it down.