Guest speaker announced for 2025 Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
The NUJ Black Members’ Council has announced that Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP will give this year’s Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture.
Held during Black History Month, the Lecture celebrates the pioneering radical journalist who founded the UK's first Black newspaper The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News.
Ribeiro-Addy chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Afrikan Reparations and has been the member of parliament for Clapham and Brixton Hill, previously Streatham, since 2019.
Ribeiro-Addy's lecture, 'Learning from Claudia Jones in the fight against the rise of the far-right', will focus on countering the pervasive rise in racism and fascism following some of the largest far-right mobilisations in the UK's recent history.
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As well as a superlative journalist, Jones was an internationally influential activist and campaigner, putting theories of Black liberation into practice as a leader of the Black equal rights movement and a founder of the Notting Hill Carnival in 1959.
The event will be held at the Guardian’s office in King’s Cross on the evening of 22 October. Tickets are free and available to NUJ members only. For further details, please register to attend.