Jean Ambrose (activist)

Jean Ambrose is a British anti-racist activist. In the 1970s and 1980s she was active in Race Today, the Brixton-based collective and political journal.

Like Leila Hassan, Ambrose was a member of the Black Unity and Freedom Party, and she joined the Race Today collective soon after its establishment in 1974.[1] After the 1981 New Cross house fire she was active in the New Cross Massacre Action Committee (NCMAC).[2]

Ambrose wrote the script for Race Today, a 2020 documentary directed by Wayne G. Saunders.[3] She also appeared as herself in George Amponsah's 2021 documentary Black Power: A British Story of Resistance.[4]

  1. ^ Robin Bunce (2018). "'Race Today cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s'". In Jonathan Davis; Rohan McWilliam (eds.). Labour and the left in the 1980s. Manchester University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9781526106452.
  2. ^ George Ruddock (23 January 2021). "New Cross fire tragedy remembered 40 years on". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  3. ^ "I Will Tell International Film Festival: RaceToday". eventive. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  4. ^ Suzi Feay (19 March 2021). "'Black Power' brings a vital slice of British social history to BBC2". Financial Times.