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Hoxton park to be renamed in honour of late basketball star Joe White – as efforts to remove links to slave trade continue

Aske Gardens was originally named after an investor in the Royal African Company

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Hoxton park to be renamed in honour of late basketball star Joe White – as efforts to remove links to slave trade continue

Local museum renews pledge to move slaver statue overlooking its entrance – a year after its original promise

Hackney Stand Up to Racism demands action – as Museum of the Home says ‘repositioning is ongoing’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Local museum renews pledge to move slaver statue overlooking its entrance – a year after its original promise

‘Reimagine the world’: New trail of globe sculptures in Hackney puts racial injustice under the spotlight

Arts and education combine for a project designed to develop our understanding of the slave trade

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Reimagine the world’: New trail of globe sculptures in Hackney puts racial injustice under the spotlight

Cassland Road Gardens to be renamed as part of borough-wide review

The decision over the gardens, named after slave trader John Cass, is just the first in a sweeping rethink of place names across the borough, announced by the council in the wake of global anti-racism protests

Author: Aisha Payne

Cassland Road Gardens to be renamed as part of borough-wide review

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘The racist legacies of the past are woven into the fabric of our present’

The local writer on what is needed for meaningful change in Britain – a ‘wholesale shift in an economic system built on the enslavement and sale of human beings’

Author: Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘The racist legacies of the past are woven into the fabric of our present’