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STATUES of Christopher Columbus are being taken down in a number of US cities with one in Boston decapitated as protesters demand the removal of symbols of racism and oppression.
The city of Camden, close to Philadelphia, released a statement late on Thursday explaining that they had taken down the statue in Farnham Park calling it a “controversial symbol” that has “long pained residents of the community.”
It comes after similar statues have been pulled down or damaged in cities including Miami, Richmond and St Paul in Minnesota by protesters in the wake of the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went round the world in 1960, and within months, he had been executed by Belgian and CIA-backed forces, writes KEITH BARLOW
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year