An unauthorized statue of a Black Lives Matter protester has been erected atop the base where a monument honoring British slave trader Edward Colston once stood. The life-size resin and steel likeness ...

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 ...

Protesters in Bristol, England, took matters into their hands and tore down the statue of a slave trader, then threw the statue into the harbor. The protesters joined the tens of thousands of others ...

A statue of a 17th-century merchant and slave trader that was toppled almost exactly a year ago during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer in Bristol, England, will go on view at a city museum ...

Marvin Rees, Bristol's mayor, said that Bristol's citizens have a hand in deciding what happens next to the statue of the slave trader. Statue of slave trader Edward Colston being retrieved from ...

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Joanna Burch-Brown is currently co-chairing the We Are Bristol History Commission. She is director for Bridging Histories, which is being funded by an ESRC Impact Accelerator award, a UKRI Citizen ...

Many places in the city of Bristol bear the name of slave trader and Tory MP Edward Colston. Schools, streets, pubs and various buildings across Bristol bear Colston's surname, and until very recently ...

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BRISTOL — How did a police killing in Minneapolis in May lead people thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean to pull down the statue of a slave trader who's been dead for nearly three centuries?

Lee Edward Colston II called his friend and artistic collaborator Malika Oyetimein at 2 a.m. one day with the semblance of a story. Over the phone, he pieced together a massive idea for a play. “Being ...

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 ...