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, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A concert hall in the English city of Bristol that was named after 17th century slave trader Edward Colston has renamed itself the Bristol Beacon saying the long-debated ...

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 ...