race and racism
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Community protests against horrific racist hit-and-run, ‘attempted murder’ in Bristol
The horrific hit-and-run against a 21-year old NHS worker in Horfield shook the city. The Cable spoke to one Horfield local and protesters campaigning against racism.
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Bristol activists spearhead the call for reparations for the legacy and current damage of slavery and colonialism
As Green councillor Cleo Lake petitions Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, to lobby the UK government about reparations, we explore what that means, and talk to the Bristol activists involved.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Marti Burgess, the first Black Merchant Venturer
Marti is the first Black person to join the Merchant Venturers, the 500 year old club of slave trader Edward Colston.
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Bristol History Podcast: The Bristol Bus Boycott
This week I met with Professor Madge Dresser to discuss the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963. The boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company over its racist employment policy was the first black-led protest against racial discrimination in post-war Britain. We explored race relations in Bristol around the time of the boycott, and why its legacy continues to resonate so strongly today.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert is a Black Lives Matter backer. But he also attended the ‘All Lives Matter’ demonstration in Bristol the week after Colston fell.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake
Season 1, Episode 1: Founding member of Countering Colston, Green party city councillor and former Lord Mayor, Cleo Lake has a lot to say on the big questions of politics, race, history and the future of Bristol and beyond.
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Reflections on the All Lives Matter protest
From “All Lives Matter” to “just doing my patriotic duty,” Cable reporter Priyanka Raval reflects on the “protect the cenotaph” demonstration on Saturday.
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Watch: Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol
Cable journalist Priyanka Raval spoke to people at Sunday's BlackLivesMatter protest about what the toppling of the Edward Colston's statue means, and where Bristol goes from here.
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Watch: The Kneel at the Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol 2020
"We are killed for racially charged suspicions. Demonised even when found innocent. And fight for our mere existence."
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PHOTOESSAY: The protest that toppled Colston
The Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday hit headlines the world over after protestors pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and rolled him down to the docks and into the river.
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Editorial: After Colston, now to tear down structures of racism, including in the media
A statement from the Cable on the felling of Colston, Black Lives Matter and working towards anti-racism.
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Colston statue toppled during Bristol’s Black Lives Matter protest
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre - often the centre of debates about marking Bristol's dark history - was today torn down.
