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Today is the born day of Claudia Jones, communist, intellectual and journalist who founded the West Indian Gazette, the first Black newspaper in Britain. and the Notting Hill Carnival. (Photo: Getty)
Carole Boyce Davies’ biography Left of Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones is essential reading and a reminder of how long Black women have been intersectional in their feminism.
#ClaudiaJones
In this essay, literary scholar Carole Boyce Davies critiques Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism through the lens of Black left feminism, questioning the neglect of Black women intellectuals, including #ClaudiaJones, in Marxist/left scholarship

aaihs.org/a-black-left-f…
Read #ClaudiaJones’ An End to the Neglect of their Negro Woman thenewbridgeproject.com/wp-content/upl…

#ClaudiaJones was born in #Trinidad, moved to the US as a child, was arrested and jailed several times for her activism and communist politics and deported to Britain.Some articles about her fight for the rights of Black women and the Black working class google.com/amp/s/www.esse…
And here is @womanistbae on: Why #ClaudiaJones Is The Black Feminist Hero We Need Right Now via @BGDblog

bgdblog.org/2017/03/claudi…
Ruby Dee on #ClaudiaJones
Escaping the Master’s House: #ClaudiaJones and the Black Marxist Feminist Tradition digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewconten…
#ClaudiaJones’s transnational radicalism newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
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