Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees and the Bristol City Council announced that they had taken down the Jen Reid statue on Wednesday morning, claiming that the decision was rooted in the "need for a ...
Last month, protestors toppled Edward Colston’s statue from its plinth in Bristol city centre. The bronze statue had stood on Colston Avenue since 1895, ostensibly as a memorial to its subject ...
march to support the Black Lives Matter movement and tear down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throwing it in the city's harbour.
However, a bridge near that plinth where the statue was dragged from which is named after an African man who was enslaved, ...