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Anthony Ekundayo Lennon on being accused of 'passing' as a black man: 'It felt like an assassination'

by Simon Hattenstone

All his life, people have assumed the theatre director is mixed race " and he was happy to embrace that identity. Then he was accused of faking it Anthony Ekundayo Lennon remembers the moment his life spun out of control. It was late morning, Friday 2 November 2018. The actor and director was giving a talk about the performing arts to university students, and his phone kept flashing. It was so incessant that the stud…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:24pm on September 8, 2019