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 ...
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 ...