West Indian Gazette (WIG) was a newspaper founded in March 1958 in Brixton, London, England, by Trinidadian communist & black nationalist activist Claudia Jones (1915–1964).[1] The title as displayed on its masthead was subsequently expanded to West Indian Gazette And Afro-Asian Caribbean News.[2][3] WIG is widely considered to have been Britain's first major commercial black newspaper.[4][5] Jones, who originally worked on its development with Amy Ashwood Garvey, was its editor.[6] WIG lasted until 1965, but always struggled financially, closing eight months and four editions after Claudia Jones's death.[7]
- ^ Schwarz, Bill (2013). West Indian Intellectuals in Britain. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-84779-571-7. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ Carole Boyce Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Duke University Press, 2008, p. 92.
- ^ "West Indian Gazette, Cover of the July issue" (Vol. 5, No. 2, July 1962), Lambeth | Landmark.
- ^ Boyce Davies (2008), p. 70.
- ^ Chastanet-Hird, Tariq (30 September 2019). "The West Indian Gazette: A symbiotic dialogue between the local and the global". History@Manchester. History Department | University of Manchester. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
- ^ Boyce Davies (2008), p. 66.
- ^ Hinds, Donald (3 July 2008). "Claudia Jones and the 'West Indian Gazette'". Race & Class. Institute of Race Relations. doi:10.1177/03063968080500010602. S2CID 144401595.
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