Afro-Brits -- Black people of West Indian, British and African descent living in England; have long been invisible in mainstream popular culture. Even as Afro-Brit filmmakers and actors celebrate their successes, American movie houses have either neglected or given their works short shrift.
“The stories are gripping, but cerebral. They engage your mind,” said Sabrina Roth, 34, an avid collector of Black British fiction that can be seen neatly stacked in piles throughout her Northwest home. Roth numbers among a growing American audience to embrace literature and films by Blacks in Europe, mostly England.
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INSIDE OUT: BBC TV. POGUS CAESAR RETURNS TO HANDSWORTH, UK.
ReplyDeleteIn 1985 tension and community discontentment escalated into the historical Handsworth riots that rocked Birmingham UK between 9th - 11th September 1985.
Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?.
The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.
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