8th March 2021
Church launches project to tell the stories of the Caribbean diaspora
HSITORY: A still from the film Robert Wedderburn that tells the stories of those from the Caribbean (Image: via Robert Wedderburn)
A CHURCH has begun a new project to honour the lives of those from the Caribbean community who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Gospel Temple Apostolic Church is now leading an initiative telling “contemporary and historical Caribbean stories” to a new generation of audiences to ensure their memories live on.
The latest instalment in the project is a short film which has been directed and produced by Jason Young is titled,
Black actors appear in leading roles in Rhimes’s
Bridgerton, including Regé-Jean Page as the Duke of Hastings, and Golda Rosheuvel as the Queen of England.
The show has ignited discussion about British Royals’ possible African ancestry, and at the same time, the plotlines ignore or obscure the evils of colonialism, poverty and racism. All of these were rife in this historical time period, and continue to blight our own era, as I chronicle in my book,
The result is that
The series doesn’t tell us a great deal about what life was really like in England in 1813, the year the series is set, but is rather a fairy-tale that on some levels challenges perceptions of race, gender and sexuality.
Robert Morrison, British Academy Global Professor, Queen s University, Ontario January 12, 2021 - 8:05 AM
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Author: Robert Morrison, British Academy Global Professor, Queen s University, Ontario
Bridgerton, Netflixâs new eight-part period drama miniseries, launched on Christmas day, has already achieved the No. 1 spot overall in more than 75 countries.
The show is inspired by the romance novel series by American author Julia Quinn set in early 19th-century England. In the hands of executive producer Shonda Rhimes, the showrunner behind the blockbuster TV series Greyâs Anatomy, and collaborator and creator Chris van Dusen, Bridgerton pushes the envelope in depictions of race, gender and questions of power and sexual consent.
'Bridgerton' alludes to and obscures social, racial and political tensions in England’s Regency era, the extraordinary decade that marks the dawn of the modern world.