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Afro-British

adjective

  1. of or relating to British people of African descent

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Giddens and Turrisi recently finished composing the music for a ballet, staged in Nashville, titled “Lucy Negro Redux,” about Black Luce, the Afro-British brothel keeper who some scholars think may have been the inspiration for the “dark lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

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In 2012, the U.K. company Surrey Opera presented the posthumous première of the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Thelma,” from 1909, after it was excavated from the British Library’s archives.

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But at a Tuesday afternoon show at Spotify House, on an outdoor stage, Jungle didn’t hide that they are about as Afro-British as the Average White Band was.

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Also, though the movie’s story is dreadfully compelling, this excellent Afro-British actor lacks the backstory of the man who win…

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