The BBC’s historical culture wars have been laid bare in an authorised biography of the corporation. It reveals that a high-ranking executive demanded that black people “shut up” amid internal disquiet over The Black And White Minstrel Show. The book by David Hendy, a professor of media and culture history at Sussex University, dedicates a…

BBC told us to ‘shut up’ about our objection to the Black and White Minstrel Show — Black News Zone