New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...

Regarding how the statue has been viewed historically by many African Americans, the park service, on a website page titled "Abolition," says that after the statue's dedication in 1886, the Black ...

A look at how Lady Liberty's anti-slavery origins and design changed over time. In this clip, Alan Kraut, Chair of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island History Advisory Committee and Lonnie Bunch ...

Crews finished putting up the statue of Lynchburg's first African American mayor, M.W. Thornhill, on Thursday. Thornhill was Lynchburg's first African American mayor and a civil rights activist.