Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 ... have reached saturation point where we are no longer able to consider new statues." Hannah Prowse, CEO of Portsmouth Historic ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A statue that is seen as commemorating the suffering of slaves was vandalized inside a Jewish cemetery near the Dutch capital. Orange paint was splashed on the statue titled ...

Critics say the statues perpetuate the "Lost Cause" mythology that romanticizes slavery and promotes the honor of the Confederate cause. Taking down those memorials is seen as one way of ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to soon release his government’s position on a bronze statue set up in Glendale, ...

The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims ... Some six statues had no managing entities as their ...

When it comes to slavery, there is no expunging the moral stain. There is no expiating the sin. Two miles from our offices at National Review, there is an 18-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin.

Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery, said "truth is of no colour" A proposal to erect a statue dedicated to US abolitionist and activist Frederick Douglass has been passed by Belfast ...

No-one can object ... having a history in the slave trade, and said it was right the country had to "confront that rather than sidestep it". He added: "Where we have statues to people whose ...

New signage will explain that Dundas was "instrumental in deferring the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade". The statue on a tall column in Edinburgh's St Andrew Square was funded by voluntary ...