A protester who helped roll the statue of Edward Colston to Bristol Harbour and throw it in the water has said he was staging a symbolic “sentencing” of the slave trader. The memorial to the 17th ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rope used to topple Bristol's Edward Colston statue and a T-shirt gifted by Banksy to one of the protestors are anticipated to fetch £15,000 at auction. The statue of the infamous slave trader was ...