Too few authors of colour of children’s books published in the UK say campaigners
Fewer than 2% of all authors and/or illustrators of children’s books, published between 2007 and 2017 in the UK, were by British people of colour.
We Are All Birds of Uganda Book at Bedtime
We Are All Birds of Uganda, the debut novel by Hafsa Zayyan, joint-winner of Stormzy's #Merky Books New Writers' Prize is to be abridged for BBC 4's Book at Bedtime.
Mrs Death Misses Death to be filmed
Death, personified as a series of black women, including an old “homeless black beggar woman with knotty natty hair”, will take a leading role in the film Idris Elba plans to make, based on Salena Godden's debut novel.
Brown Baby podcast
From book to podcast. Nikesh Shukla's hosts a new online platform exploring mixed-race Britain.
Marcus Garvey on screen
Amazon Studios has set Winston Duke (Black Panther) to star as Marcus Garvey in Marked Man in a film inspired by Colin Grant's biography, Negro with a Hat.