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]

References
  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.
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