Xahra Saleem, now aged 23, was one of the most high-profile BLM marchers in Bristol ... a demonstration which saw a statue of Edward Colston being toppled into Bristol Harbour.

It is an experience as exhilarating as it is rare, but sometimes you can actually feel the electric crackle of history being ...

How can we say #BLM and then take this down!? Poor decision. This was progression.” Another shared: “I’m disappointed in Bristol Council. I understand that they didn’t ask for the statue ...

PA Media The plinth remains empty after BLM protesters took down the controversial statue Bristol mayor Marvin Rees said he was in no hurry to replace the Colston statue, and Chas Golding ...

The Grade II listed statue was pulled down during a protest in Bristol in 2020 before being put on a temporary display at the city's M Shed Museum. It has been out of public view since January ...

In Bristol, Black Lives Matter protestors removed the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston, and dumped it into the harbour, a symbolic action in a city that has struggled to come to terms with ...

During the summer many Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests took ... Minneapolis in May. In Bristol, on 7 June, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration tore down a statue of slave trader Edward ...

The statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, was pulled from its plinth during a protest on 7 June 2020 before being dragged to Bristol harbour and thrown into the River Avon.

A French installation artist has added a bright red painted sculpture of a roasted chicken to the statue of a king of England in the centre of Bristol. The statue of William III, in the centre of ...

Authorities in the seaside town of Bournemouth will later remove a statue of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement who also supported the Nazis. The statue of a slave trader ...

This book examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds ... to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue-tumblings, and riots. In 2020 they seized upon the ...

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