Pauline Black: Going back to my roots

Singer Pauline Black was adopted by a white couple. She tells Hannah Pool how confusing it was and how 2-Tone music became the surrogate family that saved herPauline Black's earliest memory is of throwing up her breakfast in response to the news that she was adopted. It was 1958, in Romford, Essex, and Pauline was four. Until then, she had been in "blithe ignorance" about her origins, despite the fact that she was the only non-white person in her family. She knew her skin colour was different fr...

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