NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's Commisioner Stacey Cumberbatch Says 12 Years a Slave Actor Benedict Cumberbatch's Ancestors Were Slave Owners

The mayor of New York Bill de Blasio recently appointed two new commissioners for the department of citywide administrative services, and one of their names is Stacey Cumberbatch, which does not sound too common. During her speech, she claimed rather a striking link to a British actor who plays a plantation owner in a 2013 British-American historical drama film, "12 Years a Slave."
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