Writers

Growing up, I swallowed the message that beauty meant looking like Margot Robbie. Reading A Raisin in the Sun helped me to embrace my blackness. I was not a particularly pretty or popular teenager. I was not a “hot girl”. Yes, I…

I’ve got to admit, my expectations were low the day my old school friend Selwyn Musa told me some film director was looking for students. Selwyn had met the director, Barney Platts-Mills, in Ladbroke Grove, west London. He had asked…