Film-maker Liana Stewart (far right), pictured here with her mother’s side of the family "When I get offended is when somebody says ‘you can’t be from Wales – you’re not from Wales’. "Just because you’re black and you live in Wales – it doesn’t make you any less Welsh." Sheldon Mills grew up in a working class family in Ely, Cardiff, and despite the doubts of a teacher is now an executive director of the Financial Conduct Authority. He is one of one of a handful of people who have shared their experience of growing up black in Wales for documentary Black and Welsh . Poet Ali Goolyad says when he says he is from Wales he gets asked ‘where are you really from?’ Recalling an experience at school, he told the documentary: "I said [to my teacher]: ‘Sir, I’m going to be a lawyer and I’m going to go to King’s College London’. "And he said: ‘You will never go to King’s College London, Sheldon.’ "And I said: ‘Yes I will’. And I did." He said this story serves as an example of how "people underestimate what a black boy, now man, can actually do". "And that’s why […]

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