Director Steve McQueen On How Anti-Black Racism Fueled “Small Axe”

Exclusive: The award-winning filmmaker’s father narrowly avoided a lynching in the United States and other untold Black Briton stories

Nadine Drummond
Momentum
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4 min readNov 24, 2020

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Mangrove,” the first installment of “Small Axe.” Photo: Kieron McCarron/Amazon Prime Video

Progress is a slow turning wheel and Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen celebrates the victories and the pain it took to get…

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Nadine Drummond
Momentum

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