Trailblazers television series
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Trailblazers is a television series presented by Kara Miller
and first aired in October 2007 on the Community Channel (UK). Trailblazers is a celebration, for Black History Month
, of people of colour who have achieved extraordinary things. The four interviewees are performing at the highest level in their chosen fields.
Kara Miller
Kara Miller is a writer and director working in film and television. . She is also credited as K.J. Miller .Kara Miller was born in Jamaica and educated in Jamaica and in Barbados at Harrison College high school...
and first aired in October 2007 on the Community Channel (UK). Trailblazers is a celebration, for Black History Month
Black History Month
Black History Month is an observance of the history of the African diaspora in a number of countries outside of Africa. Since 1976, it is observed annually in the United States and Canada in February, while in the United Kingdom it is observed in October...
, of people of colour who have achieved extraordinary things. The four interviewees are performing at the highest level in their chosen fields.
Episodes
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- George Harris (actor) - originally from the Caribbean island of Grenada - his film credits include The InterpreterThe InterpreterThe Interpreter is a 2005 political thriller film starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, and Catherine Keener. It was the final film to be directed by Sydney Pollack.-Plot:...
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. - Precious Williams - Precious Williams (writer) is the daughter of a Nigerian princess and was ‘privately fostered’, from the age of 3 months, by a white family in West Sussex. Her first book, a memoir called Precious in the UK and Color Blind in the United States (Bloomsbury, 2010), lifts the lid on the private fostering phenomenon in the UK and describes her abusive childhood and her subsequent journey to finding her own identity. Born in the UK, Precious has also lived in New York and Berlin, where she has worked as a journalist, writing teacher and author.
- Alrick Riley - Alrick Riley (director) – he was the first Black British director to win a Bafta – Alrick has directed Cops, SpooksSpooksSpooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
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, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley etc. and is now one of Britain's most sought after television directors. - Paul Crooks - Paul Crooks (writer and expert in African CaribbeanCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
genealogy) - he spent 20 years of his on what seemed like an impossible quest to find his ancestors. Paul wrote a critically acclaimed work of ‘faction’ (fact and fiction) called Ancestors, which was inspired by his search for his African roots.