ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale.

There are more than 130 billion pennies in circulation right now, amounting to more than a billion dollars worth of coins. But the value of the penny has declined to the degree that it now costs more than one cent to produce the one cent coin. So is it time for the penny to be retired? NBCLX storyteller Peter Hull...

Protesters calling for the removal of a D.C. statue of President Abraham Lincoln and a freed Black man are expected to hold a rally near the statue Friday evening.

Protesters are expected to continue calling for the change of a statue celebrating emancipation in Lincoln Park. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Protesters rallied at the Freedom Memorial Friday night to call for the removal of a statue depicting President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed Black man. Opponents of the statue want to see it taken down for its “paternalistic” connotation. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

Fences were put up around D.C. statues Thursday as protesters continue to call for their removal or topple the statues themselves. News4’s Shomari Stone spoke with demonstrations about the frustrations over the monuments.

Some D.C. residents say they want to see changes to a Capitol Hill monument that depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed African-American man. The statue shows a shirtless Black man kneeling below Lincoln and clenching his fist, with shackles attached to Lincoln’s feet. It has stood in Lincoln Park since the 1870s. “The actual statue, the kneeling...

Residents say they want to see changes to a Capitol Hill monument that depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed African-American man. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

A mother and son talked race on the steps of Lincoln Memorial ahead of what may become the capital’s largest protests yet against racism, police violence and the killing of George Floyd on June 6, 2020.

A new study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat — for years a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum — ever actually belonged to the 16th U.S. president, according to a published report. Among the findings spelled out in a 54-page report was that the hat, once appraised at $6.5 million, didn’t appear to be…

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says if elected he’d like to name a woman to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs for the first time as 2020 hopefuls take aim at President Donald Trump’s record on stemming military suicide and helping female vets. On Veterans Day, several candidates rolled out proposals to meet the needs of America’s 20 million former...

Ivanka Trump on Friday echoed her father’s view that the House impeachment investigation is an attempt to overturn the 2016 election. But, in an interview with The Associated Press, she parted ways with President Donald Trump by calling the identity of the impeachment whistleblower “not particularly relevant.” The Republican president and some of his allies lately have been pressing the...

Mayor Muriel Bowser testifed in front of Congress Thursday, making her case that D.C. residents have lived without representation for long enough. News4’s Mark Segraves report.

There are some jokes that just sound wrong coming from Seth Meyers, like the ones about ‘Toy Story 4’ and President Abraham Lincoln.

The United States Navy has launched a search for a missing active-duty sailor after a reported “overboard incident” onboard USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.

A 75-year-old Louisiana woman who founded an African American history museum was discovered dead in the trunk of a car, and police said Saturday that investigators were working diligently to find those responsible. Baton Rouge police Sgt. L’Jean McKneely said investigators were still waiting for a coroner to determine a cause of death for Sadie Roberts-Joseph after her body was...

In a cabinet inside a modest laboratory in downtown Washington are rows and rows of ink samples in plastic squeeze bottles and small glass jars. To the untrained eye, it’s just a bunch of blackish liquid with strange names like “moldy sponge” or “green grass.” But to the U.S. Secret Service agents who use the samples, they are the clues...

Alitalia has apologized and taken down a video featuring an actor in blackface depicting former President Barack Obama after the Italian airline faced backlash on social media....
The advertisement was part of a series of promotional videos to highlight Alitalia’s new route from Rome to Washington, D.C., which included portrayals of other presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump. But...

In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial Day, and this year’s commemoration on May 27 marks the 151st anniversary of its official nationwide observance. The annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866...

Fifteen students from the Arlington Career Center and Rockville High School will speak about important social issues at the historic Ford’s Theatre on Thursday. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.