Ep. 13: Big People Tings: Claudia Jones

Our second "Big People Tings" highlight is Trinidadian Marxist, Black Feminist writer and political organizer Claudia Jones (1915-1964). Jones was one of the leading Black female organizers in the Communist Party in the USA and later went on to organize and celebrate the Afro-Caribbean community in the UK through her founding of the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News, Britain's first major Black newspaper, and first Caribbean carnival in the 1950s.

Strictly Facts Reads

• “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman” by Claudia Jones 

• “Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment” by Claudia Jones 

• “Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones” by Carole Boyce-Davies 

• Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold Warby Dayo F. Gore

Strictly Facts Sounds

• Looking for Claudia Jones 2010 documentary

• Open University- Notting Hill Carnival 5-part series