Boston officials voted this week to remove a statue that shows former President Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave who is breaking free from his chains.
“What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece, and in the Boston landscape we should not have works that bring shame to any groups of people, not only in Boston but across the entire United States,” Ekua Holmes, vice-chair of the Boston Art Commission, said in a statement after the commission voted unanimously to remove the statue.
