{"id":1122807,"date":"2022-06-15T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/its-interesting-to-look-at-the-audience-not-see-any-black-people-sir-lenny-questions-lack-of-diversity-at-glastonbury\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:45:36","slug":"its-interesting-to-look-at-the-audience-not-see-any-black-people-sir-lenny-questions-lack-of-diversity-at-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/its-interesting-to-look-at-the-audience-not-see-any-black-people-sir-lenny-questions-lack-of-diversity-at-glastonbury\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s Interesting To Look At The Audience &#038; Not See Any Black People &#8216;: Sir Lenny Questions Lack of Diversity at Glastonbury |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>British actor Sir Lenny Henry has questioned the lack of diversity in audiences at British festivals including Glastonbury, remarking that he is &#8216;interested&#8217; and &#8216;always surprised&#8217; by the apparent absence of black and Asian faces in the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The Comic Relief co-founder, who shot to fame as the first black performer on the controversial\u00a0Black And White Minstrel Show, made the comments\u00a0ahead of the release of his two-part documentary about Caribbean culture in Britain later this month.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_home_topstory\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(17, 97, 142); font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nRead Full Story &#8230;.<br \/>\ndailymail >>><br \/>\n<\/span> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Sir Lenny Henry has questioned the lack of diversity in audiences at British festivals including Glastonbury, remarking that he is &#8216;interested&#8217; and &#8216;always surprised&#8217; by the apparent absence of black and Asian faces in the crowds. The Comic Relief co-founder, who shot to fame as the first black performer on the controversial\u00a0Black And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3296,94,17697,17698,5492,468,17699,345,4434,8926],"class_list":["post-1122807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-audience","tag-black","tag-diversity","tag-glastonbury","tag-interesting","tag-lack","tag-lenny","tag-people","tag-questions","tag-sir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}