medievalpoc:JEFFREY BROWN: In filling in the story, though, you get to look at a lot of bigger issue

medievalpoc:JEFFREY BROWN: In filling in the story, though, you get to look at a lot of bigger issues, because you’re seeing Britain as a colonial power.KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: Yes.JEFFREY BROWN: You’re taking us to Trinidad. The Dr. Watson character is a black man, so you’re taking this into racial issues. Slavery is in the story.KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: And just what it was like in England after slavery has been abolished, and how people relate to the colonies, because every time you see Victorian England depicted, they only look at London.Well, London was attached to all of its colonies, so that attachment really hasn’t been explored.Mycroft Holmes is the elusive and possibly more intelligent older brother of Sherlock Holmes. Now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – NBA All-Star, writer and Arthur Conan Doyle devotee – has co-authored a novel about the lesser known but no less intriguing brother Holmes. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Abdul-Jabbar to discuss his latest work.View the Full Story/Transcript HereAmazon | GoodReads -- source link

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