'Small Axe' is Steve McQueen's 'love letter to Black resilience' in London's West Indian community

You might be missing the Mangrove Nine or the Brixton Uprising from your history lessons, but Steve McQueen's new film series will make sure you learn up.

Small Axe is a collection of five films from the British director about London's Black community between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, which particularly focuses on the experiences of the British Caribbean community, the prevalence of systemic racism and police brutality, and those who mustered the power of collective action to demand change.

McQueen's series comes at the end of a year which has seen the Black Lives Matter movement dominating headlines and conversation and thousands hitting the streets across America and cities around the globe demanding justice following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many other Black people at the hands of officers. These protests included cities across the UK, where systemic racism and police violence also has a long history, with strong anti-racist movements emerging in London in the '60s, '70s, and '80s — something Small Axe brings to light. Read more...

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