The 10 names engraved on the base of the new monument were selected by the MLK commission from more than 100 submitted by the public. In addition to Turner and Gabriel, they include figures such ...

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.

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 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 ...

A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

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 ...

The Emancipation and Freedom Monument was unveiled to a rain-soaked audience at Brown’s Island on Wednesday. A monument honoring Virginians who fought against slavery has been dedicated in the ...

The Emancipation and Freedom Monument pulls off an impressive feat: It manages to communicate the horrors of enslavement while conveying hope. Scars crisscross the Black man’s back but he ...

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 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 ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, look at Richmond’s newly unveiled Emancipation and Freedom monument Sept. 22, 2021.

Richmond, Virginia — once the capitol of the Confederacy — is now one of only a handful of U.S. cities with monuments to enslaved people. An Oregon artist made the sculptures unveiled Wednesday.