The TUC Race Relations Committee in association with Blackstock films presents a screening of ‘Looking for Claudia Jones’ followed by a panel discussion.
- Friday 17 April 2015, 7-9pm
- TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
Panel members:
- Nia Reynolds (director)
- Donald Hinds
- James Fairweather
- Diane Langford
- Corrine Skinner Carter
The film documents the influence of Claudia Jones, a towering figure in politics in the second half of the twentieth century in the USA and UK. Claudia is an important figure in the Black radical tradition and was a campaigner for freedom, through her communist beliefs. She founded Britain’s first Black newspaper, The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News, in 1958. And she was one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival, as a community led response to the Notting Hill race riots of 1958.
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