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Sir Henry Havelock statue in Trafalgar Square.

From Streets and Squares of Charlottesville to Britain: A colonial Past Remembered or Ignored?

London, UK (VIAnews) – The Charlottesville downing of Robert E Lee’s statue in the United States of America. Evidence that colonial and historical memory in the country is, once again, at the forefront of public scrutiny. For protestors demanding the statue’s removal, Lee represents the racist Confederate defense of the slavery institution in the 19th…

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Civil rights activist Bree Newsome speaking at the community college in Syracuse.

Civil Rights Activist Bree Newsome’s Lecture on Current Movement to Remove Confederate Monuments

In 2015 civil rights activist Bree Newsome climbed the South Carolina state house flagpole and removed the Confederate flag. Since then, there has been a growing movement challenging confederate flags and monuments in public spaces that act as symbols of a white supremacy culture in America. Weeks ago in Charlottesville South Carolina, white supremacist groups…

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