Steve McQueen to co-direct a BBC docuseries on British race relations

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The three-part Uprising, which McQueen is co-directing with James Rogan, will examine three dramatic events in the UK in 1981 that defined race relations for a generation: The New Cross Fire that killed 13 Black teenagers at a house party in January 1981; the Black People’s Day of Action mass protest in March of that year and the Brixton riots in April 1981.