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Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says term risks avoiding real conversation about racism and systemic behaviour

The actor and campaigner came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago in 1954 and rose to join Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company. Clint Dyer and others explain why we should remember her

Sun 11 Apr 2021 10.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 10.58 EDT It’s been 40 years since Ros Griffiths watched her neighbourhood burn to the ground. Then 15, she wandered the streets through one of the most devastating civil disturbances England has seen, in a state of shock. “As I got into the area, you could see the fighting. It looked like war.” But even amid the smoke, fire and police cars that tore through the streets, Griffiths still remembers the reggae music that played softly into the night. Brixton was then the centre of the UK’s black community, Griffiths s...

For the Caribbean diaspora living in London, there may never have been a quieter weekend than the one in August 2020 that normally would have seen the Notting Hill Carnival. England has no shortage of full-sensory festival experiences, from music in Glastonbury to Diwali celebrations in Leicester. But there’s nothing quite like visiting the Notting Hill Carnival. You exit the tube station, get off the bus or dismount your bike, and enter the irresistible hum of the celebrations, stepping off the pavement and onto the road. That hum you hear is the combined sound of hundreds of steel pans ...