ObituaryPeggy AppiahDaughter of Stafford Cripps and collector of Asante folk talesPeggy Appiah, who has died in Ghana, aged 84, was the youngest daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Labour chancellor of the exchequer from 1947 to 1950. In 1953, she married a young lawyer from Ghana (then the Gold Coast) called Joe Appiah, and went on to write, mostly for children, in her adopted country.
When it was announced that the 32-year-old Peggy was to marry a black man, every Colonel Blimp in the Empire was horrified. Read More...
TelevisionInterview‘This isn’t a clickbait story of a white family with a black kid’: Jimmy Akingbola on growing up in foster careAmmar KaliaThe Bel-Air star spent 14 years with foster parents after his mother and father divorced. As he revisits his childhood for a documentary, he talks about the family he lost and regained – and the loving home he found along the way
It is a typically sunny Los Angeles morning, with light cutting through the blinds, when Jimmy Akingbola greets me on a video call from his home. Read More...
Facebook This article is more than 9 years oldVictory for drag queens as Facebook apologises for 'real-name' policyThis article is more than 9 years old Drag queens win right to go by preferred names
Lil Miss Hot Mess: ‘I’m beyond thrilled’ Facebook apologized to drag queens on Wednesday following a meeting with community members and queens who protested against the company’s order to use their legal names on the social networking site. Read More...