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 ...

After drawing over 5,000 attendees in 2024, the Brighton Bash Carnival is set to return to St Anne’s Well Park, Hove, on ...

In the UK, Jones continued her lifelong fight against ... In an attempt to uplift Black British communities, she helped to launch the Notting Hill Carnival in 1959. The first carnival took place at St ...

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 ...