Furthermore, some of the arguments Callum’s mum and dad have allude to arguments about how Black people should most effectively protest for equality: Mum supports a man who resembles Martin Luther King, Jr. The way that Callum and Sephy describe the first day of integrating Heathcroft directly mirrors what happened on the first day the Little Rock Nine, a group of Black high school students, tried to integrate Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. More broadly, though, Noughts & Crosses draws on the history of the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow (racial segregation) laws, and institutional racism in the United States, in addition to apartheid (a period of legally mandated racial segregation) in South Africa. Further investigations uncovered institutional racism and general incompetence in the local police force, and in 2012, two of the suspects were found guilty of murder. But in 1997, the Home Office opened an inquest into the murder. By 1996, all five suspects had been acquitted. Five white men murdered Lawrence while he was waiting for a bus in London, and though witnesses contacted the police with information about the perpetrators in the days following the incident, the police didn’t arrest anyone for weeks. She lives with her husband and daughter in Kent, England.īlackman has said that Noughts & Crosses was inspired in part by the 1993 murder-and subsequent trial-of Stephen Lawrence, a Black teenager. She received an OBE (a British order of chivalry) in 2008 for her contributions to literature. She also made history by being the first Black person to ever work on the television show Doctor Who. The first in the series, Noughts & Crosses, was voted number 61 on BBC’s 2003 “Big Read” list, ranking ahead of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities and some of Terry Pratchett’s novels. In terms of her novels, Blackman is best known for the Noughts & Crosses series, which consists of five novels and three companion novellas. Since starting to publish in 1990, Blackman has published a number of novels for adults and children, short stories, picture books, and early chapter books, in addition to writing for film, radio, and the stage. She later graduated from the National Film and Television School. As a kid, she wanted to be an English teacher, but she initially attended college to become a systems programmer instead.
Blackman was born in London, England to Barbadian immigrants.
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