a group of people standing in front of a building: A statue of Cecil Rhodes, a 19th-century British colonialist, is seen outside the University of Oxford's Oriel College in Oxford, England, on June 18, 2020. © Eddie Keogh/Reuters A statue of Cecil Rhodes, a 19th-century British colonialist, is seen outside the University of Oxford's Oriel College in Oxford, England, on June 18, 2020.
A college at the prestigious University of Oxford is calling for the removal of a controversial statue on campus of a 19th century British colonialist that has been the center of recent protests.
The governing body of Oriel College on Wednesday expressed their wish to take down the stone statue of Cecil Rhodes, which is mounted on the facade over the college's main entrance on High Street in Oxford, England. Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician who supported apartheid-style British rule in southern Africa. He served as prime minister of Cape Colony, in present-day South Africa, from 1890 to 1896.....
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