If there's one film you bookmark for this week, make it ‘Mangrove’ the first in a 5-part collection of films in the ‘Small Axe’ series both c0-written and directed by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen. The Small Axe anthology tells the often untold black British experience during the late 1960s-1980s in London and is derived from a Jamaican proverb and title of a Bob Marley song from The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin'. The message in the first film ‘Mangrove’ is clear: Small voices of dissent can successfully challenge voices in power. It tells the true story of the trial of West London's Ma...
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