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Video, Unbelievable - this EMF song is 30 years old, Well, that was wild. Video, 100th birthday card request goes viral. “Jeremy has been fantastically supportive to me, and I really appreciate that. Three years in three minutes. Marvin Rees says his election and that of Sadiq Khan’s in London show Labour makes it possible for ‘ordinary people’ to win high office @stevenmorris20 Mon … Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, said he was 'delighted' that GWR had chosen to honour Dr Stephenson. How does he plan to tackle Bristol’s growing problem with inequality – and its racist past? On that day Bristol became the first major European city to have elected a mayor of black African heritage. But as word of the city’s wonders has spread, it has also thrown its problems into sharp relief. Last week, Marc Quinn erected the sculpture of BLM protester Ms Reid where Colston's stood. As a 40-minute walk around its central neighbourhoods – from, say, opulent Clifton to down-at-heel Lawrence Hill – proves, it is a city characterised by glaring inequality, which seems in many ways to be getting worse. Bristol mayor death threat graffiti: Man arrested, US man drives more than 18 hours to vote. The toppling of the Colston statue around a month ago prompted a wave of attacks on varies monuments to historical figures from Britain's past, including Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell and Admiral Lord Nelson. And other questions, The Countdown: Election anxiety? We didn't mean to scare you: Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance defend their '4,000 deaths a day'... M&S shoppers can book timed slots to do their food shop as new lockdown looms - while Primark boss demands... TONY BLAIR: How we can - and MUST- make this the last lockdown Britain has to face. 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An earlier version described Marvin Rees as the UK’s first black mayor; that has been amended to say he is the first directly elected black mayor. ', Bristol council workers arrived at the former memorial to Edward Colston to remove a statue of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid, Demonstrators then rolled the statue of the 17th century slave trader and pushed it into Bristol Harbour on Sunday, June 7. He told the Daily Telegraph:  'I had a black guy tell me I'm not black, then an email from someone saying, ''Go back to your own country''. “I got to a point where I thought, ‘You know what? “I said to them, ‘If you build a development with no affordable housing, it has an impact. But the first thing you have to do is recognise it and not pretend it’s not an issue.”. Marvin Rees was elected mayor in May 2016. • This article was amended on 23 May 2016. UK records 20,018 new Covid cases - 12% FEWER than last Tuesday - but... Is a Covid-19 vaccine coming at the start of December? 'He [Colston] was a slave trader who may well have been involved in the transportation of my ancestors.'. That’s where I stand now. Video, Well, that was wild. The basic story is simple: people (and companies) fleeing London contribute to double-digit house-price inflation, rents soar and the character of renowned areas of the city – particularly St Paul’s, the byword for Bristol’s black community where Rees spent some of his childhood – is said to be under real threat. It also needs to catch up with the world. Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 12.51 GMT, ‘I don’t want to be tagged as the black mayor. This year, by contrast, Rees’s win was portrayed as a loud shout from the city’s more neglected neighbourhoods, and a sign that Bristolians had belatedly accepted the mayoralty’s importance: turnout rocketed from 24% to 45%, and, whereas Ferguson’s win had been based on 31,000 first-preference votes, Rees got 56,000. At a time when Oxford University students have demanded the removal of the now-infamous statue of Cecil Rhodes, I suggest, such features of the cityscape are more highly charged than ever. But the integrity of us telling that story is undermined by the fact that 25% of our kids are in poverty, inequality is increasing and the city is increasingly unaffordable. © 2020 BBC. .css-8h1dth-Link{font-family:ReithSans,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:700;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;color:#FFFFFF;}.css-8h1dth-Link:hover,.css-8h1dth-Link:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}Read about our approach to external linking. Marvin Rees, 48, ordered the removal of a statue of Jen Reid, a Black Lives Matter protester, just 24 hours after it was erected on the empty plinth where a memorial to the 17th-century slaver Edward Colston had stood before being pulled down. Meghan Markle 'voted early by mail in the 2020 election' source claims - after she and Prince Harry sparked... United States Postal Service FAILS to meet deadline set by judge to sweep facilities and deliver remaining... 'Losing is never easy. “But my story of growing up here as a mixed-race kid does matter. But it’s about a system. He added that he was keen not to have the statue row define his leadership. We all want that, don’t we? Rees voted for Andy Burnham in last year’s leadership election, but gives Corbyn his due. My great grandad was one of Bristol’s first taxi drivers.” When there were riots in the St Pauls area of the city in 1980, “a black kid said to me: ‘Marv – whose side are you going to be on in a war between black and white?’ I couldn’t answer. He has a fascinating backstory. This was not unusual; this was normal. ‘It would be really nice to get rid of this complexity that I don’t have words for, and not be a problem for anyone.’ But now, no: I think there’s something really rich in it.”. It’s poor people and middle-income people – and now even people who earn good money – who can’t afford to live in a place.”. “Fifty years ago, my dad arrived here from Jamaica to signs saying: ‘No Irish, no blacks, no dogs’,” Rees tells me. I took down the intervention of a white, London-based artist using his financial clout to put his work on that plinth. 'I said to Marc Quinn, ''The emails from racists are coming to me - where are you?''. And then I came back to Bristol, and I had a sense that this stuff was bubbling away. As in other rapidly changing cities, gentrification is a charged issue, with many long-term residents feeling pushed out. He is taking office just as Bristol faces testing circumstances. Marvin W. Rees of Burke, VA passed away on January 21, 2015 at the age of 90. I think it’s a challenge for all of us – for our moral integrity and our future economic strength. UK terrorism threat level raised to 'severe', 'Heroes' praised for helping Vienna attack victims, Could Trump contest the result? They weren’t thinking about that conversation that happens in the Westminster bubble.”. 2,192 Followers, 184 Following, 237 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mayor Of Bristol (@marvinjrees) Rees, after all, had become not just the local elections’ other big Labour story, but also the UK’s first directly elected black mayor. When elected in 2016, Mr Rees became one of the first city mayors of black African heritage in Europe. It’s not a neutral act. Managed by: Jonathon Rees: Last Updated: November 16, 2014 This experience clearly shaped how he does his politics: rather than use the dried-up vocabulary of many UK politicians (“hard-working families” and all that), he tends to talk in incisive, inspirational terms that link specific issues to great causes, in the manner of someone running for office in the US. Three years in three minutes, Rape suspect Kadian Nelson urged to hand himself in, Great British Bake Off star Luis Troyano dies at 48, Covid: Destructive rules only current option, says Chris Whitty, Pub plans eased as takeaway beer sales now allowed, Chelsea town houses collapse forces evacuations, Glitch caused self-isolation orders to be too long, John Lewis and Currys PC World extend hours ahead of lockdown, Coronavirus: Sweden brings in rule of eight for diners amid spike in infections, Vienna shootings: Three men praised for helping emergency services, Asher Craig has said she received death threats. They were our natural cohort. It’s the categories that are a problem, and the way they box us in. “I’m here and I’m present. Rees is all too aware of the issue: his own sister, he says, recently decided to move back to Bristol from London, but discovered it was prohibitively expensive. Marvin grew up in Milroy, Indiana and after briefly attending Northwestern Unive “Some of the closest people to us were poor, white kids. And now they’ve elected a mixed-race guy to be mayor. Two years ago, the Sunday Times hailed it as Britain’s best city to live in, praising its “great shopping, great scenery and great social scene”. “But my thing was, this was a Bristol election, and some of the people who mobilised around me were people who have known me since I was a kid. Normal. I didn’t know how to.”, His complex background, Rees says, puts him in a good position to navigate tensions in the city that still linger. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Rees is a 44-year-old father of three who lives on the southern edge of central Bristol. In the last year, I’ve heard people here start to use the word a lot. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}Bristol's mayor is calling for a city-wide debate after a "politically motivated" death threat was spray-painted outside his home. Read about our approach to external linking. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. In London, Sadiq Khan’s win was being held up as a huge moment for Britain’s Muslim population, and welcome proof that divisive, borderline-hateful campaigning is often more likely to backfire than succeed – but 120 miles up the M4, an equally dazzling story was playing out. 'I didn't take down the statue of a black woman. Election fever! Now, the Bristol Mayor says he has received thousands of abusive and racist emails from Britain First supporters, as well as messages from BLM protesters calling him an 'Uncle Tom'. Rees joined the Labour party in 2004, having spent time with the campaign group Operation Black Vote, one of whose founders presented him with a simple argument: “‘You’ve got a great analysis of why the world is rubbish. Inequality costs money, right? VideoUS man drives more than 18 hours to vote, 100th birthday card request goes viral. As well as pledging to protect children’s centres, increase school places and concentrate on apprenticeships, his campaign promised a drive to build 2,000 new homes a year by 2020, including 800 that would be “affordable” – with, he assures me, a particular emphasis on rented social housing.

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