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 ...
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 ...