Camden Black Sisters (CBS) is a community organization founded in 1979, which provides support to black women in the London Borough of 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 in based in Falkland Road, Camden. It 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

  1. 1 2 Alison Donnell (2002). "Camden Black Sisters". Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  2. ↑ Tom Foot, Now primary school could have name changed over slavery link, Camden New Journal, 4 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Karen Alexander, Maureen Blackwood: “I wanted to make films about lives and issues that were forgotten”, Sight and Sound, 18 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Brenna Munro in conversation with Sokari Ekine, Blogging Queer Africa. Interview with Sokari Ekine, April 2015, Scholar and Femn=inist Online, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2017).
  5. ↑ Subject Guide: The Black Women's Movement Archived 28 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Black Cultural Archives

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