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 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 — Britain’s streets are littered with statues of slave traders and colonial looters. Our public monuments, our academic institutions, and even our street names boast the likenesses of men whose ...