Chair: Edson Burton, Panel: Sado Jirde, Madge Dresser, Sasha Josette, Dalia Gebrial

Bristol has played a particularly central role within the history of British Empire and racism from Bristol's growth and enrichment fuelled by the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, to the Bristol Bus Boycott and the St Paul's riots. Racism continues today - as evidenced through police harassment, anti-immigrant attitudes and legislation, the Windrush deportations, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism and the rise of fascism - and we are still discussing the status of Winston Churchill in history and removing slave-trader Colston's name in Bristol. Our panel will discuss the consequences of Empire and explore ideas of how we dismantle the structural racism found in our institutions and communities.