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BLACK BRITISH SHORT FILM: ‘SORRY WE DON’T HELP DARKIES’ – STARRING RICHIE CAMPBELL

June 22, 2013

A Jamaican family living in London’s Notting Hill during the tension and violence that led to the 1958 race riots, comes to a brutal realisation that life in post war Britain is far from the ‘Mother Country’ that would welcome them with open arms as they had been told… .. A situation that MANY West Indian migrants had to face while living in the ‘Mother Country’ back then, that often gets swept under the carpet and played down when discussed today. Well […]

UK NEWS/TV: EASTENDERS TO AIR IT’S FIRST EPISODE FEATURING ENTIRELY BLACK CAST / VERDICT

February 24, 2009

Via BBC News EastEnders is to air the first episode featuring an entirely black cast for the first time in its 23-year history. Tonight’s programme will focus entirely on characters Patrick Trueman, Denise Wicks, fiance Lucas, and her daughters Chelsea and Libby. Patrick reminisces about London in the 1950s after his arrival from the Caribbean in the episode. The action will be set chiefly in his house, which is also the home of the other characters. The family discuss history around the […]