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'Why do I know more about Rosa Parks than our history?": the musical bringing Britain's Black history to the stage by JN Benjamin

The story of the state's targeting of 70s activists has been turned into a musical exploring a fascinating and relatively unknown period. It is a love letter to our elders, says its writer "Black Power. The words can send shivers down the spine of the nervous white man," begins the 2021 BBC documentary Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, which takes a closer look at the movement from the 1960s to the present …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM on August 28, 2025

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