{"id":3239,"date":"2020-03-17T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T08:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2020-03-17T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T08:18:05","slug":"trailblazer-playwright-on-the-need-to-keep-black-british-history-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2020\/03\/17\/trailblazer-playwright-on-the-need-to-keep-black-british-history-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailblazer playwright on the need to keep black British history alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/03\/111236532_winsome_pinnock_cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/03\/111236532_winsome_pinnock_cut.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/03\/111236532_winsome_pinnock_cut-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2003 Winsome Pinnock was described as the &#8220;Godmother of Black British playwrights&#8221; &#8211; and the label has stuck. She has a new play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester which digs into attitudes in Britain to the historical slave trade between Africa and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinnock has encountered several people lately who were convinced British playwrights had already written about British involvement in the African slave trade &#8211; finally outlawed in 1833.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In fact until recently almost no one here had written about it,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I suspect people remember certain films or they think of the African American plays which have been produced over the years. But that&#8217;s not our story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By &#8220;our story&#8221; Pinnock means all Britons, regardless of skin colour.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-51855371#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 Winsome Pinnock was described as the &#8220;Godmother of Black British playwrights&#8221; &#8211; and the label has stuck. She has a new play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester which digs into attitudes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnicity","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}