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Dec 6, 2020 · The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981. Show more. Available...
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Dec 11, 2020 · Alex Wheatle: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Khali Best, Fumilayo Brown-Olateju, Riley Burgin, Ross Cahill. The true story of writer Alex Wheatle and his spell in prison after the Brixton riots.
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Jun 17, 2021 · Writer Alex Wheatle and the first National Black Police Association chair Leroy Logan appeared at West Suffolk College's, external Untold Heroes forum, designed to inspire students.
- Alex Wheatle’S Early Life
- The 1981 Brixton Uprising
- Wheatle’S Experience in Prison and as A Successful Writer
Wheatle is today an accomplished and award-winning author, having written more than a dozen books, including children’s and young adult novels, as well as writing and performing a play about his life titled Uprising. But parts of his childhood were deeply painful and have been difficult to revisit and process. In 2014, he spoke out about the system...
At the same time, Wheatle was living during a period of tense race relations in Britain; these experiences have informed his writing, particularly in his early novels Brixton Rock and East of Acre Lane. The uprising in Brixton in April 1981 resulted from a mixture of underlying tensions, including disproportionate and racist policing of young Black...
Wheatle was arrested after the uprising and sentenced to a four-month prison sentence for his participation. It was there that he met his cellmate, Simeon, who would become a huge influence on the young Wheatle, who was carrying bitterness and anger about what had happened to him during his childhood and adolescence. “Slowly and surely, I began to ...
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Dec 9, 2020 · The real-life Alex Wheatle and the cast of the film tell the story of the award-winning writer, who having spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home, was sent to live in...
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Nov 30, 2020 · Alex Wheatle, the fourth film from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology centres on the true story of award-winning writer, Alex Wheatle MBE, chronicling his early years, being thrown in prison during the Brixton Uprising of 1981 to finally discovering his passion for the written word.
