|
Mangrove (film)
''Mangrove'' is a 2020 historical drama film directed by British director Steve McQueen and co-written by McQueen and Alastair Siddons, about the Mangrove restaurant in west London and the 1971 trial of the Mangrove Nine. It stars Letitia Wright, Shaun Parkes, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Alex Jennings and Jack Lowden. The film was released as part of the anthology series '' Small Axe'' on BBC One on 15 November 2020 and Amazon Prime Video on 20 November 2020. It premiered as the opening film at the 58th New York Film Festival on 24 September 2020. Plot Frank Crichlow is a Trinidadian immigrant opening a new restaurant, the Mangrove, in Notting Hill in the late 1960s. Notting Hill was then a Caribbean immigrant neighborhood. On opening night Constable Frank Pulley looks on and comments to a fellow constable that Black people must be kept in their place. After the restaurant closes for the night Pulley aggressively confronts Crichlow and accuses Crichlow of running an es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve McQueen (director)
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He is known for his award-winning film ''12 Years a Slave'' (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir. He also directed and co-wrote ''Hunger'' (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, ''Shame'' (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction, and '' Widows'' (2018), an adaptation of the British television series of the same name set in contemporary Chicago. In 2020, he released '' Small Axe'', a collection of five films "set within London's West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early '80s". For his artwork, McQueen has received the Turner Prize, the highest award given to a British visual artist. In 2006, he produced '' Queen and Country'', which commemorates the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps. For services to the visual a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mangrove
The Mangrove was a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, London, England. It was founded in 1968 and run by civil rights activist Frank Crichlow, eventually closing in 1992. It is known for the trial of a group of British black activists dubbed "the Mangrove Nine", who were tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police targeting the restaurant. History The restaurant was opened in 1968 by Trinidadian community activist and civil rights campaigner Frank Crichlow. It was located at 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill, in West London, Like the El Rio before it – a coffee bar run by Crichlow at 127 Westbourne Park Road in the early 1960s that attracted attention in the Profumo affair – the Mangrove was a meeting place for the Black community in the area, as well as for white radicals, artists, authors, and musicians. Famous customers included Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, C. L. R. James, Lionel Morrison, Norman Beaton, Vanessa Redgrave, Colin MacInnes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Macdonald QC
Ian Alexander Macdonald QC (2 January 1939 – 12 November 2019) was a Scottish barrister who was "a pioneer of committed anti-racist legal practice" in the UK. During the 1970s he appeared in many notable political and human rights cases, including those involving the Mangrove Nine, the Angry Brigade, and the Balcombe Street siege. He took silk in 1988 and was leader of the British bar in immigration law for five decades until his death at the age of 80. Biography Macdonald was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Ian Macdonald, a banker, and his wife, Helen Nicolson. He attended Rugby School, then studied law at Clare College, Cambridge, going on to be called to the bar via Middle Temple in 1963. He became a member of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) when it began in 1964, lobbying the Labour government for race relations legislation, which resulted in the enactment of the 1968 Race Relations Act and the establishment of the Race Relations Board. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Campbell (actor)
Richard Campbell (born 8 February 1982) is a British actor. Career He is best known for his comedic turn as local bully "Tyrone" in British film '' Anuvahood'' and his role of Ndale Kayuni in '' Waterloo Road''. Campbell has won a Screen Nation Award for his portrayal of Dominic Hardy in TV show ''The Bill''. His work has included '' Breathless'', '' Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge'', and recurring roles in '' The Silence'' and Channel 4 drama ''Top Boy''. As a film actor, Campbell has appeared in ''Wilderness'', '' The Plague'', '' The Firm'', ''Victim'', '' Fast Girls'', and '' Get Lucky''. In addition, Campbell has done extensive work in West End theatre including, '' Dirty Butterfly'' at Young Vic Theatre, ''Lower Ninth'' at the Donmar Warehouse, '' Truth and Reconciliation'' at Royal Court Theatre and in 2013 playing Tom Robinson alongside Robert Sean Leonard as Atticus Fitch in ''To Kill A Mockingbird ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a novel by the American a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodan Gordon
Rhodan Gordon (9 November 1939 – 8 May 2018) was a Black British community activist, who migrated to London from Grenada in the 1960s. He came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. Biography Gordon was born in the rural town of Paradise in Saint Andrew's Parish, Grenada, where he attended Grenada Boys' School, before studying agriculture in Trinidad. On graduating, he returned to Grenada, where he worked in government service for 18 months before travelling to Britain for further studies. In the late 1960s Gordon opened Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Martello-White
Nathaniel Martello-White (born January 1983) is a British actor and writer. Having appeared in several productions of the National Youth Theatre, he graduated from RADA in 2006 and since has performed in films, television shows and theatre. His film credits include '' Deadmeat'' (2007), ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'' (2008), ''Red Tails'', '' Hard Boiled Sweets'' and ''Life Just Is'' (all 2012). He has also appeared in the television series '' Doctors'', ''Trial & Retribution'', '' Party Animals'', ''Mongrels'', '' Law & Order: UK'', ''Misfits'', '' Death in Paradise'', ''Silk'', ''Horrible Histories'' and ''Collateral''. In 2020, he portrayed Rhodan Gordon in ''Mangrove'', part of Steve McQueen's '' Small Axe'' series. His theatre credits include '' Edward II'' and '' Romeo and Juliet'' at the National Theatre, '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ''Marat/Sade'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' at the Young Vic; he also app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Beese
Barbara Beese (; born 2 January 1946) is a British activist, writer, and former member of the British Black Panthers. She is most notable as one of the Black activists known as the Mangrove Nine, charged in 1970 with inciting a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, west London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. Black Panthers and activism Beese came to public attention in 1970 as one of the Mangrove Nine, who on 9 August that year marched to the police station in Notting Hill, London, to protest against police raids of The Mangrove, a restaurant run by Frank Crichlow, which was a meeting place for the Black community in the area. Violent clashes between the police and the Black marchers led to charges and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Crichlow
Frank Gilbert Crichlow (13 July 1932 – 15 September 2010) was a British community activist and civil rights campaigner, who became known in 1960s London as a godfather of black radicalism. Jasper, Lee"Obituary: Frank Crichlow, founder of Mangrove Community Association" OBV, 17 September 2010. He was a central figure in the Notting Hill Carnival. His restaurant, The Mangrove in All Saints Road, served for many years as the base from which activists, musicians, and artists organised the event. Crichlow was one of the Black activists known as the Mangrove Nine, who were charged in 1970 with inciting a riot following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant. The defendants were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. Early life and emigration to UK Originally from Woodbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darcus Howe
Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017)"Civil rights activist Darcus Howe dies aged 74" , BBC News, 2 April 2017. was a British broadcaster, writer and racial justice campaigner. Originally from , Howe arrived in England as a teenager in 1961, intending to study law and settling in London. There he joined the , a group named in sympathy with the US |
Altheia Jones-LeCointe
Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. Early life and education Born Altheia Jones in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she was one of the three daughters of Viola Jones, a Port of Spain dressmaker and clothes shop proprietor, and Dunstan Jones, the principal of a government school. Her parents also held local lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road Market. From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists. 'Notting Hill and Bayswater', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 177-88. For much of the 20th century, the large houses were subdivided into multi-occupancy rentals. Caribbean immigrants were drawn to the area in the 1950s, partly because of the cheap rents, but were exploited by slum landlords like and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mangrove
The Mangrove was a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, London, England. It was founded in 1968 and run by civil rights activist Frank Crichlow, eventually closing in 1992. It is known for the trial of a group of British black activists dubbed "the Mangrove Nine", who were tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police targeting the restaurant. History The restaurant was opened in 1968 by Trinidadian community activist and civil rights campaigner Frank Crichlow. It was located at 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill, in West London, Like the El Rio before it – a coffee bar run by Crichlow at 127 Westbourne Park Road in the early 1960s that attracted attention in the Profumo affair – the Mangrove was a meeting place for the Black community in the area, as well as for white radicals, artists, authors, and musicians. Famous customers included Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, C. L. R. James, Lionel Morrison, Norman Beaton, Vanessa Redgrave, Colin MacInnes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Steve McQueen (director)")
_(cropped88).jpg "Click for more on -> Rhodan Gordon")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Barbara Beese")
