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Berlin’s ‘Moors’ Street’ renamed after years of controversy
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African philosopher after years of debate over its current name, Mohrenstrasse (“Moors’ Street”), viewed as outdated and offensive.
The local council of the central Mitte district first announced in 2020 that it wanted to change the name of the street to Anton Wilhelm Amo Street, after the first black philosopher known to have taught at a German university.
The Mohrenstrasse metro station will also take the new name on Saturday, a date chosen to coincide with the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade.
“It’s a great success for civil society, which has been pushing for a name change for more than 30 years,” said Tahir Della, from the group Decolonise Berlin, which is organising celebrations to mark the name change.
“It makes clear why the former name is so problematic for many black people in Germany,” he said.
The origins of the current name are unclear.
It dates back to the early 18th century, the height of the Atlantic slave trade, and some have suggested it may refer to former slaves who settled there.
Another theory is that it refers to a visiting African diplomatic delegation.
Whatever its precise origins, Della said the name is a “racist description for black people”.
However, local residents mounted legal challenges against the council to try to stop the renaming.
A last-minute court decision on Friday briefly threatened to derail the process, even after workers had already begun switching the street signs.
However, a higher court overturned the decision hours later, allowing the renaming to go ahead.
Born around 1700 in what is today Ghana, Anton Wilhelm Amo is believed to have been sold into slavery as a child and then brought to Europe.
He later had the opportunity to receive an education which took him to the prestigious universities of Wittenberg, Halle and Jena, becoming an important figure in Germany´s Enlightenment period.
Decolonise Berlin says the new name honours a symbol of “resistance, self-affirmation and knowledge in the African diaspora”.
Della said he hopes the renaming will serve as an “impetus for further discussions on public spaces”, pointing to debates on other street names in Berlin honouring figures from Germany’s colonial past.
Sean Diddy Combs’ new documentary, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, is produced by none other than his arch-nemeses, 50 Cent, and the teaser promises to pull back the curtain on the rapper’s scandals and crimes.
The new trailer, which is only 56 seconds long, showed new footage from before the Bad Boy Records founder’s arrest in September 2024, and he appeared visibly worried about losing the legal battle, which hadn’t started yet.
The footage released on December 1 showed the disgraced music mogul scrambling for legal help as he tells his team, “We have to find somebody that’ll work with us that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business. We’re losing!”
Social media sleuths flocked to X and shared their curiosity over the documentary, which will be available to stream on December 2.
“50 cent trolling diddy hard with this one,” one X user wrote, while another echoed, “50 been waiting his whole life to drop this bomb on Diddy and tomorrow Netflix finally hands him the mic. All those years of shots fired on Instagram just turned into a whole documentary,” referring to decades-long feud between the two musicians.
“They let 50 produce it? oh he’s COOKINGDDDD somebody up,” chimed in a third, while one reacted, “Oh yeah, this is about to shake the whole internet again.”
While Diddy is serving up to 50 months in prison, 50 Cent has collected never-before-seen footage and explosive information on the former’s Freak Off parties, as well as stories from the accusers, which will be told in the documentary.
Kristne Bell and Dax Shepherd got unfiltered feedback from their daughters on their 2012 film, Hit & Run.
During a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Idiocracy star revealed that Lincoln (12) and Delta (10) saw the movie, and were stunned to see Bell’s character break up with his character.
“They were very upset,” he shared their kids’ swift and brutally honest reaction. “and what made me so happy is they were mad at Mom, not me. They thought Mom was a b—h. They thought Daddy was a good boy with a bad past, and she should be able to overlook that, and I agree.”
Bell sitting beside her partner on the November 28 episode laughed off the critique.
She noted that the kids ultimately liked the movie.
“We spent we spent all this time making this independent film and Daddy wrote it and directed it and they were like, ‘We want to see it,’” Dax continued.
“And we hadn’t watched it in forever. We like, ‘OK, let’s watch it with you.’ They loved it. It’s very inappropriate. And it was a great litmus test for our children.”
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