(CNN) Hundreds of protesters in Oxford took to the streets outside the famed university's Oriel College on Tuesday, to demand the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes. The long-running campaign to remove the statue has been reinvigorated after the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the US following the death of George Floyd. Anti-racism protesters in the UK previously pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the English port city of Bristol on Monday. Demonstrators hold placards during a protest called outside University of Oxford's Oriel College, where a statue of Rhodes stands. Why are people protesting about statues of Cecil Rhodes?

Source: CNN June 09, 2020 17:50 UTC