After 141 years, the Emancipation Group statue has left Park Square in downtown Boston. As city officials consider a new location and replacement, crews removed the bronze depiction of former ...

The Boston Art Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove from Park Square a statue that represents Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves. The decision came at the end of a second hearing to ...

The Emancipation Group Memorial was removed from Park Square, Dec. 29, 2020.(WBZ-TV) "We're pleased to have taken it down this morning," Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

The statue, also known as the “Freedman’s Memorial,” depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln’s feet. It had stood in Park Square since 1879 and is a copy of another ...

Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet : Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice Emancipation Memorial has stood in Park Square since 1879. It is a ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln and a formerly enslaved man has been taken down in Park Square in Boston, Mass., after an intense debate and a petition to remove the work.

BOSTON (CBS) - A little more than two weeks ago, Dorchester native and social media influencer Tory Bullock took Facebook to raise awareness about a statue he has seen as offensive since he was a kid.

live with more. ted: if you have lived in boston long enough, you have likely walked by this statue and park plaza many times and maybe you knew the historical significance, maybe you did not.

The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman's Memorial, that was erected in Lincoln Park, in Washington, D.C., in 1876.

The Lincoln Emancipation Statue in Boston is a replica of the one that sits in Lincoln Park in Washington D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

Read more on Boston.com. The statue in the city's Park Square is a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington and depicts Lincoln with one hand raised above a kneeling man with broken ...

When Boston artist Tory Bullock looks at the Emancipation Memorial in Boston's Park Square, he sees subservience instead of freedom. Designed and erected in 1876, the statue depicts Lincoln ...