There are many black characters on CBBC - Kazima, Jenny, Duke, Omari, Mimi, Bow, JJ, Agent Omar, Big O, Jas, Wozza and especially Cleo. Ever since the George Floyd hearings and the Black Lives Matter protests last year, CBBC has been taking diversity to a whole new level, and that's where Our Black History Heroes comes in.
The show, which was made for both CBBC and CBeebies, chronicles the lives of famous British and American black people in history, according to kids. While the kids narrating would be live action, the people featured were drawn in the style of She-Ra and placed against live-action photographic backgrounds, which large graffiti-like coloured letters and paint splodges to put facts up on the screen. Today they were talking about Mary Seacole, a black Jamaican nurse who travelled the world, and despite the show's rough visual effects, it seemed all too good for my taking.
All hail black people!
Watch Our Black History Heroes on iPlayer:
This is a great post about an important series. I'd not heard of Mary Seacole.
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