When Steve McQueen was curating the narratives for his Amazon Prime Video anthology “Small Axe,” the year 1968 felt like the best place to start.
This was because it was a year of mass strikes in France, a year in which Conservative politician Enoch Powell made his infamous “rivers of blood” speech and a year in which Frank Crichlow (played by Shaun Parkes in the “Mangrove” installment) named his restaurant and fought to keep its doors open in the face of repeated police raids.
“Small Axe” is one of several among this year’s limited series and TV movie contenders, including Lifetime’s “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jackson” which tell full, nuanced stories of Black people achieving their goals, despite facing oppression from racist institutions.
McQueen describes having “a must, a need, a want” to put the acts of “Small Axe” on screen, and to show working-class Black men and women...
This was because it was a year of mass strikes in France, a year in which Conservative politician Enoch Powell made his infamous “rivers of blood” speech and a year in which Frank Crichlow (played by Shaun Parkes in the “Mangrove” installment) named his restaurant and fought to keep its doors open in the face of repeated police raids.
“Small Axe” is one of several among this year’s limited series and TV movie contenders, including Lifetime’s “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jackson” which tell full, nuanced stories of Black people achieving their goals, despite facing oppression from racist institutions.
McQueen describes having “a must, a need, a want” to put the acts of “Small Axe” on screen, and to show working-class Black men and women...
- 6/14/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
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