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Historical figures reassessed around globe after Floyd death

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The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II.

Protests and, in some cases, acts of vandalism have taken place in such cities as Boston; New York; Paris; Brussels; and Oxford, England, in an intense re-examination of racial injustices over the centuries.

Scholars are divided over whether the campaign amounts to erasing history or updating it.New Zealand's fourth-largest city removed a bronze statue of the British naval officer Capt.

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