A new emancipation monument was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday that features two 12-foot bronze statues -- one of a woman holding an infant and one of a man freed from chattel slavery.

The Emancipation and Freedom Statue was unveiled in Richmond. (Courtesy Twitter/Gov. Ralph Northam) Two weeks after a statue of a Confederate general was removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission announced that the Emancipation and Freedom monument will be unveiled on Brown’s Island Wednesday morning.

RICHMOND, Va. -- A new monument on Brown's Island in Richmond was unveiled on Wednesday morning. The Emancipation and Freedom Monument honors the contributions of African Americans in Virginia who ...

A state commission planning an anti-slavery monument in downtown Richmond voted Wednesday to include Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, among a group ...

Unveiled in 2021 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown’s Island pays homage to some of ...

Five years after George Floyd protests, Richmond leaders debate if monument removals address deeper racial and social issues. From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, ...

Shockoe Institute exhibit rendering. The ceremony took place on the anniversary of Richmond’s Emancipation Day when, in 1865, the city surrendered to Union forces and enslaved Richmonders were ...