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The director’s “Small Axe” anthology intimately portrays Black spaces. Parisa Taghizedeh/Amazon Studios Shaniqua Okwok and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in “Lovers Rock.” Mangrove, the first film in Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology series, “Small Axe,” begins with Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), the proprietor of a local West Indian restaurant, walking through the Notting Hill section of London while “Try Me” by Bob Marley and the Wailers plays in the background. He crosses a construction site where Black children are happily running around a makeshift playground comprised of overturned trash bins, construction beams, an old mattress, and a baby carriage. In the background, there is graffiti that reads ....