The accounts of the race riot reached audiences in the USA, South Africa and further afield. When similar riots broke out in the Notting Hill area of London a week later, the spotlight on Britain ...

She’s now known as the Mother of Notting Hill Carnival. 5. Carnival in Britain was inspired by a series of racist attacks In late August of 1958, race riots had broken out in both Nottingham and ...

"Come one, come all. No matter your race, your colour, your creed or your sexual orientation, you are included." Following the Notting Hill Carnival riots of 1976, organisers have worked more ...

In 1959, Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones organised a Caribbean carnival in St Pancras Town Hall in London in response to race riots, planting the seeds for Notting Hill Carnival, one of the ...

No-one was ever charged. The murder came a year after the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, but police said there was no racist motive and that Cochrane had been killed for money. For years ...

The paper also highlighted patterns of anti-Black violence, racial harassment and prejudice in the UK. When violent riots broke out in Notting Hill in 1958, Jones worked ‘to wash the taste of the ...

Notting Hill Carnival was born out of struggle, racism and riots endured by the West Indians in London and it should continue to be a safe place for the community Kedean Smith Trinidad ...