People take part in the ceremony to rename Berlin's Mohrenstrasse to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse. Fabian Sommer/dpa A street in central Berlin was officially renamed on Saturday despite a last-minute ...

John MACDOUGALL/AFP/AFP A Berlin street was officially renamed on Saturday for an 18th-century African philosopher after years of debate over its previous name that many considered outdated and ...

The renaming of a Berlin boulevard to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first African-born scholar, has been blocked again. The long struggle to erase symbols of a brutal colonial past ...

"Decolonization does not happen by changing a few street names," political scientist and human rights activist Joshua Kwesi Aikins told DW on Friday, ahead of an event to rename a central Berlin ...

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A central Berlin street is being officially renamed on Saturday for an 18th-century African philosopher after years of debate over its current name, Mohrenstrasse ("Moors' Street"), viewed as outdated ...

Berlin's "Mohrenstrasse" has been at the heart of intense political debate for decades. Postcolonial activists and organizations say the word "Mohr" ("moor") is derogatory and racist towards Black ...