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The ‘Mother’ of Notting Hill Carnival: Claudia Jones
Notting Hill carnival is the second largest street gathering in the world. It is a meeting place for artists, activists and crowds that are eager to display unity and enjoy music, dance, calypso, ...
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“Why Notting Hill Carnival embodies what it means to be black and British”
Trinidadian-born activist Claudia Jones decided she would organise an event to “wash the taste of Notting Hill and Nottingham out of our mouths”. This so-called Caribbean Carnival, an indoor ...
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Eight things you might not know about Notting Hill Carnival
In 1783 when planters in the formerly French colonies of Martinique, Grenada, and Dominica responded to an edict by the Spanish king, they moved themselves and their slaves to Trinidad, bringing ...
Family of missing Portuguese woman fear she may have been kidnapped
The family of the Portugese woman who went missing after attending Notting Hill Carnival fear she ... So many bad things ...
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Notting Hill Carnival pavilion provides ‘a place to lime’ in London
and groups that led Claudia Jones to establish Europe's largest street festival in 1958 – the Caribbean Carnival event, which later evolved into the annual Notting Hill Carnival. Two notable buildings ...
Morning Star5mon
Claudia Jones: Mother of the Carnival
This and five other London events raised money “to assist the payments of fines of coloured and white youths involved in the Notting Hill events.” It was those early carnival events that would grow ...