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Black Lives Matter - how soaps have responded

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Corrie has featured many Black characters.Factory machinist Shirley Armitage was the first regular Black character back in the '80s.

She began a romance with supermarket manager Curly Watts.But it wasn't until last year that the ITV soap introduced its first-ever regular Black family, the Baileys, to better reflect modern day Manchester.Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod admitted their arrival was long overdue.

Just a few days before the shock news about George Floyd's death shook up the world and reignited the Black Lives Matter movement, Corrie aired a hard-hitting episode in which builder Ed Bailey finally confronted Bistro manager Don about his ongoing racist remarks. "The subject matter won't go away if we ignore it," said Trevor.

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