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Protesters plan to storm Washington, D.C., over Independence Day weekend with protests and demonstrations. Activists in the most high profile of these events plan to protest the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park. The memorial, which leaders of the local collective the Freedom Neighborhood claimed they would topple last week, has become a subject of national interest, with many people making a case both for and against the statue. Glenn Foster, the leader of the Freedom Neighborhood, has promoted multiple protests against the memorial set for the days surrounding the July 4 weekend. In some of his material, he celebrated the...

Barriers have been erected around Abraham Lincoln's emancipation memorial in Washington DC after protesters, angry that the freed blacks who funded the sculpture had no say in the design, have pledged to tear it down. The Emancipation Memorial in Washington DC depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln's feet. Critics said the statue, originally constructed in 1876 to celebrate liberation, looks more like black subservience and white supremacy in 2020. SNIP 'We're kicking off the revolution with a series of shutting down the Capitol events and bringing attention to the injustices in the black community starting with Lincoln Park,...

It was truly an honor to stand with the gentlemen who brought their forces to bare against the dedication of the Tyrant Abe Lincoln Saturday at Tredager. Mr. Brag Bowling Virginia SCV Commander, Mr. Fred Tayor President of the Heritage Preservation Association and Mr. Elloitt Germain Chairman Virginia League of the South mustered up Southerners from Fla.,Tx., Ga., Nc. and all across Virginia to show a united front in the ever increasing Ethnic Cleansing of our Heritage here in the Commonwealth. "Fort" Tredager is protected by an 8 foot tall iron bared fence which was a relief to some Confederates,...

<p>A conference at the Hotel John Marshall in Richmond offered a critical review of the 16th president as a local nonprofit group is preparing to unveil on April 5 a life-size, bronze statue of Lincoln and his young son, Tad.</p>

RICHMOND -- An anonymous Web site dedicated to airing allegations of fraud against the underwriters of a statue of Abraham Lincoln was shut down Wednesday after the statue's sponsors complained. The Web site, hosted by Internet service Tripod.com, had accused the U.S. Historical Society, its chairman, Robert H. Kline, and its president, Martin J. Moran, of illegally misleading state and federal officials and the public about the society's nonprofit status. The site implied that the society's plan to set up the statue at a National Park Service site in Richmond was a ploy to promote sales of replicas of...

<p>City Council members vowed to tell Richmond's Civil War history in a different way, starting with their endorsement last night of an Abraham Lincoln statue for the city.</p> <p>Richmond has an abundance of monuments to Confederate heroes such as those on Monument Avenue, but it has few reminders of the abolition of slavery, a few council members contended.</p>

No Lincoln Statue...EVER! "Sail On Alabama"/"Going Back To Richmond" Music With A Timely Message A Review By T.E. Compton Regular readers of SHNV, are well aware of the proposed Lincoln statue, scheduled for placement, in April, of this year, on the property of the Tredegar Ironworks, in Richmond, Virginia. An organization called The United States Historical Society, announced last December, that it would be donating the monument, that depicts, Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad sitting on a bench, to the National Park Service. Since the announcement, a storm of controversy and scandal, has brewed nationwide. Late last year a...