ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name is Queen Hadassah, and I was born on October 15, 1954 in my father’s house in the little South American village of Victoria, Guyana. Victoria is on the east coast of Demerara, in Guyana. I knew that I’m a valued person. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I’m somebody. And God has proven that by caring for me through all these years. This is my story.
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Born on October 31, 1993 in Georgetown, Guyana, Letitia Michelle Wright is an UK-based actress, known for her roles in Glasgow Girls, My Brother the Devil and Urban Hymn. Migrating to London with her mother at the age of six, Letitia first fell in love with acting at her Finsbury Park primary school when she got the opportunity to play a young Rosa Parks onstage. “I felt so comfortable,” she recalls. “I even did the…
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