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London council is accused of erasing history with plan to rename 300-year-old ‘Black Boy Lane’

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A London council has been accused of erasing history with its plan to rename the 300-year-old ‘Black Boy Lane’ after a late racial equality campaigner.  Haringey Council decided to change the street name to ‘La Rose Lane’ after local poet and essayist John La Rose, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. But … Read more

Church where GH Elliott is buried considers erasing his ‘deeply offensive’ stage persona

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The church where a music hall star who performed in blackface is buried wants to erase his ‘deeply offensive’ stage persona from his gravestone but cannot contact the singer’s next of kin. Dancer GH Elliott performed in the early 1900s under the moniker the ‘Chocolate Coloured C**n’ – now considered a highly offensive racial slur. … Read more