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When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of women uncover an unofficial segregation policy preventing many black children from receiving the education they deserve.

December 2020
The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981.
November 2020
After seeing his father assaulted by police officers, a young black man is driven to join the force, with hopes of changing racist attitudes from within.
In 1980, black youths find freedom and romance at London house parties and in the sweet sound of a reggae genre known as lovers rock.
The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London’s Notting Hill that was the subject of relentless police raids during the 1970s and a consequent trial.
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