"In retrospect you look back and think, "Why didn't anybody say anything?" My brother Seymour, who's incredibly militant, used to make these jokes about storming on stage in a black beret and black gloves."
— Lenny Henry

January 1, 1970

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Henry was "contractually obliged" to perform in Black and White Minstrel Show summer seasons from 1975 to 1980. Robert Luff died aged 94 in February 2009.