Lack of black characters in children’s films under the spotlight
After the hysteria that greeted Disney’s Princess and the Frog, it is worth reviewing the presence and treatment of black characters in children’s’ films
UNIYFPAD: 400 Years of Black British Civil Rights
The black presence in England dates back at least 2000 years to the Roman invasion of Britain. Africans in Rome and subjects of the North African colonies were present at every level of society, as evidenced by the Libyan-born Emperor Septimus Severus who died in York in 211 AD More than a thousand years later…