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 ...

Marc Quinn, who created the new work, is one of Britain’s best-known sculptors. A statue of a controversial 17th century British slave trader stood for more than 100 years in Bristol, U.K. Protesters ...

BRISTOL, England -- In an English port city that once launched slave ships, an empty plinth has become the center of a debate about racism, history and memory. For over a century the pedestal in ...