Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: Antiguan, Brutality, Carnival, Claudia Jones, Kelso Cochrane, Migrants, Notting Hill, Police, Racism, Trinidadians, West Indian Gazette

Greetings,
Time seems to have flown by since August last year when we saw images on our tv screens
of our communities again going up in flames after a Black man had died at the hands of the police.
It was a signal reminder of how quickly our memories dim when all the media outlets started
to howl about ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Books, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Caribbean History
Posted on 25 October 2009. Tags: American Communist party, Claudia Jones, Mcarthyism, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Carnival, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indian, West Indian Gazette, black activists

Claudia Jones founded the first major black post- war newspaper -The West Indian Gazette; and also helped launch the Notting Hill Carnival.? Claudia Jones was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1915 Cladia moved with her family to Harlem.
She had a short education as she was plagued by lung and heart problems, which would persist for ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Women, Caribbean History