Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are?

Love the Spike Lee episode of Feb 2011.
The US Griswolde family had escape me before. Wonder if they have any coonections to the UK Greswoldes, who were on my radar. The gun factory in the south was also a revelation. Seems so obvious now. And there was I thinking of British imports, but I guess they'd only have gone to the Union army.

Moira Stewart, Colin Jackson, Hugh Quarshie, Ainsley Harriot are the only black subjects featured on Who Do You Think You Are?, that I can recall.

I wonder which other black subjects are being lined up for the programme?

Clybourne Park a satire by Bruce Norris

Clybourne Park a satire by Bruce Norris which explores the ever contentious themes of race and property ownership from two time periods – 1959 and 2009 and leaves the audience asking whether the issues festering beneath the floorboards are actually the same despite the 50 year time difference.
Clybourne Park opened at the Wyndham's Theatre on 8 February 2011.
cf. Loraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner? by David Olusoga

In 2011 a BBC TV documentary, Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?, by David Olusoga, considered that while, to most Americans Abraham Lincoln is the nation's greatest president - a political genius who won the Civil War and ended slavery, there is a darker side to Lincoln. 150 years after the war his reputation is being re-assessed, as historians begin to uncover the dark side of his life and politics. They have revealed that the president who ended slavery secretly planned to deport the freed black people out of America. Others are asking if Lincoln should be remembered as a war hero who saved the nation or as a war criminal who launched attacks on innocent southern civilians.

Marcus Garvey - BBC R4 Great Lives

excellent programme feat. Kwame Kwei Akwah & Colin Grant. 

Included audio footage of Amy Bailey on Garvey and one audio clip of Garvey himself, 

from a 1921 speech. 

I'd no idea he'd sound so mild-mannered yet assertive. 

I guessed I'd expected the bombastic hectoring of Farrakhan.

Black History: in Bromsgrove

Pleasantly surprised to find that there a Black History Group in Bromsgrove!
No local history museum, or record office, exists in the attractive town (as of Jan 2011), but an excellent central library.