In 2018 British actress Michaela Coel was invited to deliver the keynote James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. She was the first Black woman to headline the event, and her speech became celebrated for its frank comments about race, class, and gender. She also revealed that she had been drugged and raped while working on the second season of Chewing Gum and experienced incidents of racism while attending Guildhall.
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