The empty pedestal of the statue of Edward Colton in Bristol (2020) (photo by Caitlin Hobbs via Wikimedia Commons) It has been a little over a year since the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was ...

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 ...

For hundreds of years, Edward Colston was celebrated and honoured by many in his home city of Bristol, but an anti-racism protest held in the city on 7 June 2020 changed that in the most dramatic way.

LONDON (AP) — An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol once occupied by the toppled statue of a slave trader. Marc Quinn created ...

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 ...

The rope used to pull down Bristol’s Edward Colston statue and a T-shirt given to the protestor by Banksy are excepted to ...