The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...

"The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude," Frederick Douglass once wrote of the statue Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...

Among them is a young Black man kneeling down, holding a towel to King's head, trying to stop the bleeding. That man was Marrell McCullough. He was there with a group of Black activists who had ...