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The Front

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Initial release USA
Directors Martin Ritt
Screenplay Walter Bernstein
Cinematography Michael Chapman
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In the 1950s, restaurant cashier Howard Prince (Woody Allen) is apathetic toward the politics around him. When a blacklisted screenwriter (Michael Murphy) asks Howard to sell a script under his own name, Howard sees an opportunity to make a profit and becomes a "front" for several blacklisted writers. But after he witnesses the social destruction of a comedian (Zero Mostel), Howard sees the corruption of McCarthyism and decides to do something to make a difference. …

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Fleur East , Michelle Gayle and Aluna Francis

British female stars have been opening up about their experiences of racism in the entertainment industry.

Many women are now speaking, and after anti-racist protests took place after the death of George Floyd in the United States, while in police custody.

Former EastEnders star Michelle Gayle said she's heard to describe how a co-star, the soap is black actors as "token".

Gayle said she "could not wait" for The Show , where she played Hattie Tavernier from 1990 to 1993.

"I Heard actors say that black actor, Token goods '' to know that I was there. I didn't want to complain," She Said .

"All I did was to think, 'If this is, as we thought, I can't wait to Get Out '. "

Michelle Gayle as Hattie Tavernier in EastEnders in 1991, in addition to her on-screen siblings-Lloyd, played by Garey Bridges

The Actress went on a pop career with songs like Sweet, and you leveled similar accusations at the Music Industry at The Time .

"The record company said I could no longer said my album walk with Pride and my management to me, "Less of The Black stuff'," she added.

Fellow singer Fleur East had a similar story to tell. She Said , as she was in a group before she was told in the ITV show the X Factor once she "would not be able to sell to" your Music , if you wore your hair Naturally .

in addition to Her Husband Marcel Badiane Robin, The Singer and TV presenter said it was important to her, that she wore her afro "pride". to compromise

"When I went into the X Factor , one thing I really don't want to,, was my hair," said East, the second on the Talent Show in the year 2014.

"for me, is a representation of me, my color and my culture, and I think that should be celebrated. "

"Someone to Look Up to you'

Before on another reality TV show I'm A celebrity. Get Me Out Of Here! East said she was asked whether she was going to braid her hair in The Jungle .

she made a point to ignore such proposals, in order to give an example of how one of their heroes, Scary Spice Mel B , who was inspired when she was a child.

"I've been to shows where the backstage, I've met young black and mixed-race children whose parents have said:" Thank You Fleur, for wearing your hair with pride and talk about your culture and your roots, because my child has someone they Look Up to'. "

Both The Bbc and ITV declined to comment to Gayle or the East, the comments.

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Meanwhile, Sabrina Washington , one of The Stars of Mis-Teeq who believes that she was discriminated against in the form of colourism.

she told me that she was told that they are "not aesthetically desirable'" by Music bosses, how you had the darkest skin color, the Three Girls in The Band .

"as I experienced for The First Time , racism in the Music Industry . It is not talked about," said Washington.

"I said I was aesthetically desirable, because I have a darker skin color, a black Woman .

"I was good enough to sing, but I was told that I would never Go On The Front of the magazine, as black women don't sell," she added.

said Earlier this month, British artist Leona Lewis , racism goes on, much closer to home Every Day and she is "sick of it".

Speaking on her Instagram page, the former X Factor winner gave details of a meeting with a "racist" shop owner, has a confrontation with her and her father, threatening to call The Police on you with a profile of you as potential thieves.

Lewis recalled angrily called the owner of the store as a "racist", before you break Out in tears, realizing that it was the First Time her father has been subjected to such abuse.

'Diminishing our humanity"

"This is the air conditioning that we have," She Said . "This is racism. So, if The People in the UK, not to say that racism is a problem here, it is a problem. It is a big problem.

"White People in this place have left in disgust because she knew it was wrong, but She Said nothing. And because they did not Say Anything , The Situation escalated. "

"For The People who do not speak, and now you are The People who just leave," she continued. "You must Say Something , you must acknowledge that [the racism], because, if you don't, you are in decline, our pain and the reduction of our humanity. "

Another artist, AlunaFrancis - Solo -singer And One half of the electro-pop duo Alunageorge - spoke of their desire to "reclaim some of the space as a black Woman ".

Alunageorge performed Glastonbury Festival 2016

she thinks that black women in The Music are only opportunities in traditionally black areas, such as hip-hop or R 'n' B, and the entry was denied to other areas.

"If you want a career in Music and you're a Black Girl , two or three tracks that you want to Get Out of your head, before in Dance Music , indie-Guitar Music and Country Music - Unless you are Lil-Nas-X," She Said , referring to the U.S. male rapper is rarely hip-hop/country smash-hit, Old Town Road, next to Billy Ray Cyrus.

Aluna is the kind of dance/indie Music that you wanted to make it remembered for a long time, in The Past , due to the fact that No Other black women were really doing and they would not be as "convincing" enough.

On her upcoming debut Solo album, Warrior, She Said , she wants to win back the dancefloor for people like themselves.

"I mean, Yes, of course, who would believe that a Black Girl is The Front Woman of the guitar-indie band is, if there is no representation?" she asked.

"This is not to say that there are many young black girls who would love to do, or would like to go to a rave, but you want to feel addressed and you don't want to go alone. "

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