George Floyd’s Killing Revives a British Debate Over Its Imperial Past - News Summed Up

George Floyd’s Killing Revives a British Debate Over Its Imperial Past


LONDON—The killing of George Floyd in police custody in the U.S. has revived a debate about how the U.K. should remember its lost empire. Black Lives Matter demonstrators in the port city of Bristol on Sunday toppled a bronze statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, which they then dumped in the city’s harbor. Over recent days...


Source: Wall Street Journal June 09, 2020 17:17 UTC



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