Lenny Henry: Racial Representations

• Significant effort made by programme and film makers to be more inclusive of black people and Asians.
• Even though there has been a change over the years this change has been very slow
• Lenny Henry wants the media to be diverse not only in front of the cameras but also behind the cameras
• All top 100 broadcasters of the BBC were white
• Entry level training for young people needs to change to create a more diverse future in the media productions
• There needs to be jobs offered to different ethnic backgrounds to see a change in the future
• Structural change
• Lenny and a group of black and Asian minority groups speaking together/ standing up together
• opened a door to conversations
• beginning of something 
• America has seen a lot of change in the media with black actors 
• Inspiration to other black actors