Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...

Philadelphia announced the artist selected for a new sculpture of Philadelphia civil rights activist Sadie T.M. Alexander last week. The winner of the design contest is artist Vinnie Bagwell, a ...

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that area residents joined California Assemblymember Akilah Weber at “The Black Family” monument in Mountain View Park on Tuesday, where she outlined the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The statue of civil rights icon Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled at a special congressional statue dedication and unveiling ceremony Wednesday at the Statuary Hall in ...

Thanks to the efforts of Jeffrey Hayes, the state of California has earmarked $195,000 to rebuild a statue that was destroyed years ago. “The Black Family” will once again grace Neal Petties ...

Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman to have her likeness depicted in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.

YONKERS, New York -- Community leaders in Yonkers unveiled the new Enslaved Africans Rain Garden on Friday. The five life-sized sculptures overlook the Hudson River.

Like ‘Welcome, come in here to our park.’” But the statue did not withstand weather, time or, ultimately, vandalism. “A part of you feels erased because it’s not there," Brown said.