Campaigners against the veneration of Edward Colston in the city of Bristol have called for a boycott of Thatchers Cider because its director joined a merchants’ society with historic… Read More
The Anglican St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol will replace a window featuring slave trader Edward Colston with a stained glass picture of Jesus in a migrant boat. The decision was made to… Read More
Sharon Thompson, Cardiff University
The design for a statue of a leading suffragette has been unveiled in Newport, south Wales. Margaret Haig Thomas or Lady Rhondda was a lifelong campaig… Read More
Jeremy Hunt – the man with the scalpel.
Jeremy Hunt has blood on his hands that will never come off and a look of anguish in his eyes as his lifetime goal slips into the abys… Read More
London (AP) – Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was n… Read More
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A statue entitled “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020” by artist Marc Quinn is seen in Bristol, England, on July 15, 2020. (Photo: Matt Dunham, AP)
A resi… Read More
London (AP) – British civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, a leader of a bus boycott that played a key role in ending legal racial discrimination in the U.K., has died. He was 93.
Th… Read More
A British court ruling this week clearing four people of criminal damage for pulling down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol has sparked heated debate over how controversial… Read More
LONDON (AP) — Four anti-racism demonstrators were cleared Wednesday of criminal damage in the toppling of a statue of a 17th-century slave trader during a Black Lives Matter protest in… Read More
The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, by anti-racism protesters was greeted with joyous scenes, recognition of the fact that he was a… Read More
A statue of colonial slave trader Edward Colston has gone on public display in Bristol, England, almost a year after it was toppled during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the city Read More
The last educational establishment in Bristol to commemorate the dunked and de-pedestalled slave trader Edward Colston is to change its name, despite an overwhelming majority vote against th… Read More
Hundreds of people lined up Saturday in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy — a T-shirt created to help four defendants charged over the… Read More
Edward Colston's statue had stood in Bristol for 125 years before protesters toppled it in June. Now, a very different figure has taken its place — but it won't last long without the c… Read More
Around 150 Oxford University academics have refused to teach at one of its colleges following a decision to keep a statue of Cecil Rhodes
For years Oxford campaigners have been calling fo… Read More
A statue of a 17th-century slave trader that was toppled during anti-racism protests in the English city of Bristol is being displayed in a museum, where visitors will be asked to help decid… Read More
On June 7, in the English city of Bristol, protesters removed a statue of the local slave trader Edward Colston. In the days that followed, the city became the center of a debate on the ethi… Read More