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Bristol’s Colston Hall venue to announce new name in autumn following anti-racism protests

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protests continue to take place across the US and around the world after George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed in Minneapolis on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes and ignored the man’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe.Colston Hall is named after Edward Colston, a prominent 17th Century slave trader who has been a controversial figure in the city of Bristol for many years.

It first opened as a concert venue in 1867, before becoming a popular rock concert venue in the 1960s.On Sunday (June 7), protesters in Bristol used ropes to pull down a bronze statue of Edward Colston before it was dragged through the streets of Bristol and thrown into the harbour.Edward Colston statue pulled down by.

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