The BBC has dropped a first look at Steven McQueen’s anthology series, “Small Axe”. Released on Friday, the trailer marks 50 years since the Mangrove protest in London where Black people demonstrated against Metropolitan police brutality.
The protest, which led to the arrest of nine innocent Black women and men, provides the premise for the first episode in the series, “Mangrove,” co-written by McQueen and Alastair Siddons.
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