‘It’s a lot of work being black in Britain’ – Tales from the Front Line … and Other Stories review

  • 📰 The Guardian
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 1 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 4%
  • Publisher: 53%

United Kingdom Headlines News

United Kingdom Latest News,United Kingdom Headlines

Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker

theatre company began talking to black frontline workers. They interviewed the people we encounter most days, whose stories we rarely hear: teachers, train workers, hospital and supermarket staff. The first two plays to be released, for an online series based on those verbatim interviews, are quite often pained and sometimes bitter. A mental health worker is riled by; a teacher is dismayed by the lack of black doctors or nurses seen in news footage when there are so many in the workforce.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

It’s a lot of work being white working class in Britain under this Tory government

It’s a lot more work when you’re not black or white and always forgotten about in anything to do with race

Ah the poor things. Grow a set.

Poles are also discriminated in England, but this is not reported because it does not sell. 😔

These are always middle class conversations though, that have been entwined with academic alkaline anecdotes. The real front line never gets approached for comment, not even by their own.

Support your police force. Don’t mock them in disgrace

Its a lot of work being any colour these days...no which one you are you're wrong.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 84. in UK

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

County Lines review – a deep dive into Britain's drugs trade hellHenry Blake’s powerful debut feature tells the disturbing tale of a teenager drawn into a nightmarish world of criminality Lol 😂 How come nobody ever makes movies about Britain's drugs trade heaven?
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »

The fascinating story of Britain's 'first black aristocrat'Lady Mansfield of Scone Palace, in Perth, spoke on the Duchess podcast about Dido Elizabeth Belle, who was born in 1761 to an enslaved woman and a British Naval officer in the West Indies. TalbertSwan Delaproser BlkHistStudies NicoleLazzaro BlackHistoryUS Blackeresources Queen_UK carryonretired UKandEU BBCNews blackwomenviews moorbey BlackWomensBP A lot of inaccuracies in the DMs version.
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »

I’ve been defrauded, quizzed and flagged as abusive. On the plus side, my anger used up eight caloriesMaybe it’s because I tried to get an Argos employee sacked, but it’s clear that I am the asshat in this story
Source: Lifestyle - 🏆 131. / 51 Read more »

Bernardine Evaristo’s new project spotlights the “lost” work of Britain’s Black authors. BernardineEvari's new project is a series of “rediscovered” works by Britain’s Black writers: BlackBritainWritingBack PenguinUKBooks BernardineEvari PenguinUKBooks I know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover-but this artwork is stunning!
Source: StylistMagazine - 🏆 133. / 51 Read more »

Newspaper headlines: Diverse UK 'hailed' and 'keep your cool'A government review's finding that the UK is a model on race for other countries is among the front-page stories. 95% only bad news( Daily reminder that the uk is a dump and always will be👍🏼 Poor BBC no more race baiting, so next time a black women jokes about killing white people on one of your shows treat her like you would if the situation was the other way round, equality and all that.
Source: BBCNews - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »