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Protesters spray Columbus statue in London red
PROTESTERS sprayed red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in central London today and demanded Mayor Sadiq Khan remove the figure.
The activists from XR Youth Solidarity, which is affiliated to Extinction Rebellion, let off flares and hung up signs on the statue in Belgrave Square, Victoria.
The action followed Monday’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday adopted in the United States to celebrate Native American culture and history, replacing the traditional Columbus Day, marking the landing of the European coloniser in the Americas in 1492.
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
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
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
