Black Lives Matter sculpture that replaced Edward Colston statue is removed

LeBron James, Anthony Davis and fellow NBA players kicked off the return of the season by showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement during Thursday's games.

Black Lives Matter movement isn't over just because the nationwide protests against systemic racism and police brutality have slowed down.

Ayesha Curry doesn't believe in «sugarcoating» important issues when it comes to her three young kids with her husband, NBA star Steph Curry.In a new interview with magazine, the 31-year-old cookbook author talked about bringing their eldest child, 8-year-old daughter Riley, to a Black Lives Matter protest last month.

Major League Baseball started its 2020 regular season Thursday night with a pair of games. First, the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals squared off, and then the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers took center stage.

D.B. Woodside is opening up about how the Black Lives Matter movement has affected him personally.ET spoke with the 50-year-old star via Zoom, where he addressed the ongoing fight for racial justice and the responsibility he feels to help make that change.«The movement is extremely important and we all have to push this change that we really wanna see,» Woodside told ET's Katie Krause.

Colston’s statue was torn down and thrown in the harbour by protesters at an anti-racism march back in June, standing atop the plinth and raising her fist.Revealing that the statue has been removed, a spokesperson for Bristol City Council said: “This morning we removed the sculpture.

The empty plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston once stood in Bristol has been replaced by a new sculpture of a black woman who took part in a Black Lives Matter protest.Contemporary artist Marc Quinn created the black and resin steel piece of protester Jen Reid, who was photographed standing on the plinth after the Colston statue was toppled during the march.The artwork entitled A Surge of Power (Jen Reid), was erected shortly before 5am on Wednesday by Quinn’s team - but without

Charlize Theron knows the importance of being honest and open with her children. The 44-year-old Oscar winner spoke about talking to her two daughters, Jackson and August, about Black Lives Matter while chatting with Jimmy Fallon on Monday's .«The day I became a parent, I vowed that I would always tell them the truth in a way that they could handle.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the new mural will send a message that «Black lives, in fact, do matter,» reports.«That Black people built New York City, that they've never been compensated for all they did, that all the mistakes, the sins, everything in American history that has afflicted Black people have not been accounted for and must be accounted for -- something he does not understand,» he said last month.

Despite Donald Trump‘s protestations that it’s a “symbol of hate,” a massive Black Lives Matter mural did go up in front of his former residence in New York City. New Yorkers including Mayor Bill de Blasio, wife Chirlane McCray, and Reverend Al Sharpton participated in painting the words in bright yellow on Fifth Avenue on July 9, directly outside the Trump Tower. The mural, once completed, will stretch from 56th to 57th streets on the busy Manhattan block.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNew York City began work Thursday on a prominent, yellow-lettered “Black Lives Matter” mural on the street in front of Trump Tower.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long a critic of Donald Trump’s presidency and the drain of his Manhattan headquarters on city’s resources, has backed the mural as a necessary show of solidarity with the movement. Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice have swept across the U.S.

sleeping. How do you feel threatened when you’re a police officer and they’re sleeping? Come on now.” “We tried peaceful protesting.

Grammy categories will no longer be used by the streaming service in the UK.“Moving forward, we won’t be using the word ‘urban’ in the UK anymore,” Safiya Lambie-Knight, Spotify UK’s head of artist and label partnerships, tells Music Week.

Ringo Starr celebrated his 80th birthday with a livestream featuring some of his famous friends.

sparred with CNN host Don Lemon Monday night over whether the Black Lives Matter movement was going too far with their campaign against police violence.The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star was on the show addressing fierce backlash that the actor received over a series of heated tweets amid the protests over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans in police custody.In the much-criticized posts, Crews, 51, pledged to “unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology” and wrote