The global campaign to highlight racist police brutality was ‘hijacked and skewed’ - in Britain, at least - by the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, which happened five years ago ...
LONDON -- For someone who died nearly three centuries ago, Edward Colston has become a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain. The toppling of his statue in Bristol, a city in the ...
The rope used to pull down Bristol’s Edward Colston statue and a T-shirt given to the protestor by Banksy are excepted to fetch £15,000. The statue of the slave trader was toppled in 2020 during a ...
What are we to do with statues from a colonialist past? The recent furore over the memorialisation of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford has made us question not only who should be honoured in public spaces but ...