Black Lives Matter supporters have identified 60 UK statues they want removed for ‘celebrating slavery and racism’ after the Bristol monument to Edward Colston was destroyed, it was revealed today. Some of Briton’s most famous people are on the hit list including King Charles II, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson and Sir Francis Drake with activists … Read more
Sadiq Khan has announced he will ‘review and improve’ the diversity of London’s public landmarks and called for the removal of all slave trader statues in the capital. It follows the tearing down of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol over the weekend by Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrators. Last night, some people … Read more
Black Lives Matter protesters have torn down a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and dumped it in the harbour – as demonstrations continue to sweep Britain following the death of George Floyd in America. Footage shows demonstrators heaving the metal monument down with ropes before cheering and dancing around it, … Read more
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade has been revealed as a West African woman who died in 1940 aged 83. Historians previously believed the last living slave brought to the United States from Africa was a woman called Redoshi Smith, who died in 1937. But now Matilda McCrear has been revealed as the most … Read more