Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a ...

The Emancipation and Freedom Monument — two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant newly freed from slavery — was... Two weeks after the 6o-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee was ...

The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was a flashpoint of public debate in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. Tyrone Turner / DCist/WAMU Heads will roll in a new comedy from Mosaic Theater ...

(Reuters) - Boston officials have voted to remove "The Emancipation Group" statue depicting Abraham Lincoln and an enslaved Black man from a city square, saying the depiction reduced the role of ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A new monument dedicated to the African-Americans who fought for freedom in the U.S. was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, just weeks after the city removed one of the ...

WASHINGTON — The US Capitol on Tuesday unveiled a statue of a teenage Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

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