Black Voices In Conversation

Marcia Reid Fotheringham on moving from New York to become Cumbria's first black High Sheriff


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ITV Border's Lydia Hamilton-Morl talks to Marcia Reid Fotheringham - one of Cumbria's most influential black women and the county's first black High Sheriff.

Marcia spent most of her life in New York, living through a very significant time for black history. She said: "Most people my age ask me if I had experiences of being a hippy. My answer is always the same - I was too busy being black."

"I grew up with the notion that I needed to be proud of who I am, and, even though there was an awful lot of turmoil, I needed to learn how to stand firm. And I did."

Her Cumbrian journey started at the age of 43, when she made the bold step of moving from the USA to the village of Brampton to live with mountaineer Jim Fotheringham, who she later married.
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