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Out with the slave trader, in with black power.The statue of Edward Colston has been unofficially replaced with a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester. TONIGHT: Channel 4 News

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A sculpture of a black woman who took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol has been erected on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward

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An unofficial replacement for the Colston Statue this morning in Bristol.It’s called ‘A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)’ by sculptor Marc Quinn.(pics by @BenBirchallUK) Jen was one of many #BlackLivesMatter

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THREAD:BREAKING: @aspolice have launched a major appeal, with CCTV pics, to find the 18 people responsible for how the Edward #ColstonStatue into the docksFull story here - please read first

THREAD: Time to talk this past month's war on statues. People began targeting them as a form of protest against what they see as racism. But now Shaun King says

The political horseshoe theory is a great example to be used to assess the modicum level of political literacy, because only someone who is politically illiterate can believe political horseshoe

The Church of England is asking its parishes and Cathedrals to review monuments relating to histories of slavery, colonialism and contested history. The guidance places an emphasis on local dialogue,

Martin Parr's assistant says it was on the 18 year old black woman who protested the racism in the book he had republished to email Parr.Black people are absent from

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We are disgusted by the recent interview @Keir_Starmer gave to BBC Breakfast. To say that defunding the police is ‘nonsense’ is a slap in the face to all the Black

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For those of you who are upset - predominantly white people - about the removal of the statue in Bristol City Centre that replaces Colston for a hot minute, please

WR draft capital (A Thread). Over the past 20 years draft capital has shown us a lot. However, just because you are drafted round 1 doesn’t give you a better

Thomas Picton statue covered up, pending removal, after Cardiff City Council votes by 57 votes to 5, with 9 abstentions. Picton was convicted of the torture of a 14 year

1/5 Apologists for the British Empire rely on the distance between Britain itself and the sites of Britons' most rapacious exploitation of people of colour overseas. This is what enables

Antony Gormley realising someone got to the Colston plinth before him got so many messages from people sayin they had an issue with the fact it was Marc Quinn who’d

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Establishment Psychopathy: a selection of evidence setting out some of the ways in which colonial violence & structural racism continue to privilege our “ruling class”... [thread of threads] #ColonialViolence