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    Memories Of Michael Jackson

    29th June 2009 | 5 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Returning home from junior school in the early 1970s the cartoons of the day were Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, The Flintstones, The Wacky Races, Penelope Pitstop, Scooby Doo.  Not any of the aforementioned had a leading black character in them until the cartoon adventures of the Jackson 5.  It was almost unbelievable to see animated black kids, a little older than myself, on the TV screen.  At last,...

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Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.

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