The Clotilda is the ship that brought Cudjo Lewis to the United States, as told in the upcoming Zora Neale Hurston book Barracoon: The Story of the Last âBlack Cargoâ which is due to be published for the first time later this year.
Geraldine McEwan died yesterday aged 82, her children have confirmed. The actress was best known for playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Ms McEwan played Miss Marple for 12 TV films - with her last one in 2009. She had a long and successful career, winning a Bafta award in 1991. Stars and fans this evening paid tribute to the 'beautiful and funny' actress.
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress. A pop icon of the swinging London era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship. Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963).