in belgium statues of leopold ii infamous for his rule over after caps in the kopgo, made a similar fates just the straw that broke the camel's back. here it's the same way. we have the same problems, economics, covid 1, unemployment. we've seen historically racism is not an american problem. it's a world problem. now we're having a global conversation. >> in bristol, a local artist put up a statue of one of the protesters. the city took it down the next day. wrs rkir lives on the front line in the battle against steve hartman has the story of one hero that he found on the road. >> we begin today with an alarming new milestone. >> reporter: as the misery spreads, most of us are relieved to be watching most of us from the safety of our sofas. bevin was one of those comfortableably on the couch. but some switch flipped in you? >> it was a switch. wait a minute. why am i sitting here? >> a nurse, she had just emy.racted a serious case of >> ki imaginthese being so exhausted, so stressed out, if i could just go and relieve a shift for them. >> reporter: that was a month ago. and today bev ip

belgium and around the world races monuments like this one of the former belgian king leopold are being poured out streets are being renamed but what do some africans think about all this there are some thoughts black people are still trying to fight for their rights and still trying to have a space not being 2nd class citizens the colonial. they took everything that could benefit africans we can people we forgot what i pleaded before but where we came form now michael egan cameroon mats one activist who's working hard to raise tributes to colonise as andrew blessed summerhouse made his mission to take down streets signs very names of cornell feagles from the process. today's target is just a goal the former french president i will work to get. financial help ministries the names of the police if someone wants to change i lay out bodies when you go to paris you don't find a monument to the germans who occupied it during the war say. parts of china were controlled by the british but you won't find a statue of a british person in china list so this is not be the case in africa all societi

during one government discussion about famine relief, secretary of state for india leopold amory recordedinsufficient because indians bred like rabbits. it is a man—made famine because of global conditions during the war. but i don't think we can blame churchill for causing it. what we can say is that he didn't alleviate it or send relief when he had the ability to do so. we can blame him for prioritising white lives and european lives over south asian lives. when a fraction of the food supplies asked for finally came, they were carried over this bridge. it's borne silent witness to history. remnants of india's colonial past remain in printed on it — but do they matter today? at independence, india was a nation born in hunger, some have said. and so immediate priority trumped any introspection about british rule. but today, a generation of indians more confident about our place in the world are questioning why there hasn't been more widespread condemnation of the dark chapters in our colonial history. judging leaders of the past through the lens of the present might leave the world with n

leopold's soldier still carries the finger of ota benga pocket tor in his ward away people. gritan forget the way ota his teeth. zora reads about him caged in the zoo the same year his -- her mother becomes a ghost. zora has a hard time keeping still. from baltimore to bard orange nearthe bronx, -- bernard ga haunts her. ben mysteries draped and her palms. this odd chameleon. the cradles of hell always take the shape of a woman's lips. using a looking glass, madison grant traces zora's a square drop. when she whispers to him about and spencer -- square jaw. when she whispers to him about spencer, grants throat burns with curiosity. he considers this zora. is she the prophecy of stones? the darkesthin sciences he conjures? .k so let's go to this superhero right here. harriet tubman. spy, war nurse, soldier, freedom fighter, ship commander, john brown's general tubman. let's talk about that. and people are silly enough to believe she couldn't read. [laughter] right?that, harriet is holy. ais poem is written in peculiar way because we know that craft and content go to way. this