Last
autumn I attended the Claudia Jones Lecture given by
theologian and broadcaster Dr Robert Beckford, organised
by the National Union of Journalists' Black Members Council.
It was about how 'the master's tools (read: the broadcast
media) will never be used to dismantle
the master's house'.
A member of the American Communist
Party, New Yorker Claudia Jones was deported to Britain in
1955 for "un-American activities". She then started the West
Indian Gazette on top of a barber shop in Brixton. She
was also the co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival. Jones
died alone on Christmas Eve 1964, at the age of 49. They
didn't discover her body until two days later.
I cried a bit when I found her grave,
and then took this photo.
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