The UK’s carnivals, from London to Bristol ... inclusive way.” For black women especially, carnival can feel like a weekend of much-needed affirmation. It’s a time to be loud and proud ...

racial harassment and prejudice in the UK. When violent riots broke out in Notting Hill in 1958, Jones worked ‘to wash the taste of the riots from the mouths of Black people’. In an attempt to uplift ...

So, shockingly, Carnival began as white people mocking black people. Slavery was abolished in the Caribbean in 1838, and the liberated people now fully embraced carnival as their own. Their Mas ...