Camden Black Sisters (CBS) is a community organization founded in 1979, which provides support to black women in the London Borough of Camden. It was especially noteworthy as a site of community activism in the 1980s.
History Lee Kane and Yvonne Joseph founded Camden Black Sisters during a 1979 conference of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent. Another cofounder was Beryl Gilroy.Tom Foot, Now primary school could have name changed over slavery link, Camden New Journal, 4 August 2020.
The filmmaker Maureen Blackwood was a young member of the Camden Black Sisters, and used stories of older members in her 1986 film The Passion of Remembrance.Karen Alexander, Maureen Blackwood: “I wanted to make films about lives and issues that were forgotten”, Sight and Sound, 18 July 2020. Sokari Ekine was another member.Brenna Munro in conversation with Sokari Ekine, Blogging Queer Africa. Interview with Sokari Ekine, April 2015, Scholar and Femn=inist Online, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2017).
The group in based in Falkland Road, Camden. It provides a library for black women to read about black history, rooms for community groups to meet, and a venue for performing workshops, conferences and seminars. It has published a newsletter, Black Sista: A Camden Black Sisters Newsletter for Members.Subject Guide: The Black Women's Movement , Black Cultural Archives
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