HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

Campaign Wants To Remove ‘lovelocks’ From Bridge With Somber History

The bridge was named after an 18th-century slave who was brought to live in the UK. 

Zenger · Nov 15, 2023

Black Lives Matter march organiser who splurged thousands in donations on taxis and takeaways is jailed

Xahra Saleem co-organised the Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol which saw the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2023

How devastated youth group was cheated out of £30k by Black Lives Matter fraudster

Xahra Saleem spent £30k destined for a youth group which has since been forced to close

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2023

Window of slave trader replaced with multi-racial Jesus in boat with refugees

The window was temporarily replaced with plain panels and the church invited the public to submit new designs in a competition

Wales Online · Jun 8, 2023

Activist who raised fist on Colston's plinth releases new children's book

Her pose was immortalised in a controversial statue

Bristol Post · Jun 7, 2023

Bristol church to install 'multi-ethnic Jesus' stained glass windows instead of 'grotesque' Colston

"To encourage parishioners to look at a memorial to a slave trader is not only grotesque but entirely contrary to the Gospel"

Bristol Post · Jun 7, 2023

Bristol streets named after Edward Colston won't be changed, says city council

The council said it would need to see 'overwhelming support' from property owners'

Bristol Post · May 31, 2023

How the fall of Edward Colston’s statue revolutionised the way British history is told

The tearing down of memorials to colonialists like Colston forced us to ask questions about whose voices we remember, and whose stories we are told

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023

Elite UK schools’ financial links to slavery revealed

Exclusive: research shows mostly private schools given equivalent of tens of millions of pounds of donations by British slavers

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

Direct ancestors of King Charles owned slave plantations, documents reveal

Records show direct ancestor of king was involved in buying at least 200 enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2023