Marcia Longdon advises high net worth individuals on immigration and was Kingsley Napley’s first Black partner. For Black History Month she describes her harrowing journey into law after getting fed up with her brother being arrested because he was Black and then later experiencing racist abuse from clients.
I grew up in Peckham, South London, in the 1980s. When my mother divorced my father, due to his infidelities, she had six children. We lived on an estate where we were the only Black family. When I say that now, people can’t believe that the area had very few Black people whereas today it is vibrant and culturally mixed.
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