‘The day you were born Black was the day politics was made your thing.’

This is the alarming reality for every Black Brit of the past, present and likely the future, who has been forced to realise how our skin colour has been politicised for a lifetime.

It is also the powerful tagline for the buzzy new Brixton House play everyone has rightfully been raving about.

Black Power Desk transports you back to the 1970s, when political unrest was bubbling to the surface and covert operations under a New Scotland Yard special unit threatened to destroy London’s resilient Black community from within.

The beauty of the show is that it centres the stories of sisters Celia (Rochelle Rose) and Dina (Veronica Carabai), two empowering characters who embody the fact that Black women are not a monolith,

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