Camden Black Sisters
Camden Black Sisters (CBS) is a community organization founded in 1979, which provides support to black women in Camden. It was especially noteworthy as a site of community activism in the 1980s.
History
Lee Kane and Yvonne Joseph founded Camden Black Sisters during a 1979 conference of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent.[1] Another cofounder was Beryl Gilroy.[2]
The filmmaker Maureen Blackwood was a young member of the Camden Black Sisters, and used stories of older members in her 1986 film The Passion of Remembrance.[3] Sokari Ekine was another member.[4]
The group provides a library for black women to read about black history, rooms for community groups to meet, and a venue for performing workshops, conferences and seminars.[1] It has published a newsletter, Black Sista: A Camden Black Sisters Newsletter for Members.[5]
References
- ^ a b Alison Donnell (2002). "Camden Black Sisters". Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Tom Foot, Now primary school could have name changed over slavery link, Camden New Journal, 4 August 2020.
- ^ Karen Alexander, Maureen Blackwood: “I wanted to make films about lives and issues that were forgotten”, Sight and Sound, 18 July 2020.
- ^ Brenna Munro in conversaton with Sokari Ekine, Blogging Queer Africa. Interview with Sokari Ekine, April 2015, Scholar and Femn=inist Online, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2017).
- ^ Subject Guide: The Black Women's Movement, Black Cultural Archives