Lacks, whose cells were used in multiple medical advances, is honoured by the city’s universityThere were tears of joy and pride as the first statue of a black woman created by a black woman for a public space in the UK was unveiled in a sunlit garden …
We argue over statues, yet history shows they’re really all about power | Mary Beard
Today it’s ‘culture wars’ – but from Caesar to Colston, public art has long been reviled and reinterpretedMary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge UniversityTwo thousand years ago the ancient Romans had some imaginative solutions to the probl…