Oona King, Baroness King of Bow

Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow is a Labour politician and former Chief diversity officer of Channel 4. She had previously served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005, when she was defeated by George Galloway, the Respect candidate.

King, who is mixed race, was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Preston King, an AfricanAmerican academic and his wife, Murreil Hazel , a Jewish social justice activist. She is the niece of the medical doctor Miriam Stoppard , while her cousin is the actor Ed Stoppard. On her fathers side, she comes from a line of civil rights activists and successful entrepreneurs. Her paternal grandfather, the civil rights activist, Clennon Washington King, Sr. fathered seven sons. C.B. King, a pioneering civil rights attorney, is her uncle.

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