Author: Roxy Harris, Sarah White
publisher name: New Beacon Books
ISBN: 9781873201077
This volume is a tribute to the work of John La Rose as a political and cultural activist, writer, publisher, and Director of the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books from his colleagues, friends, writers, and activists on the occasion of the 10th Book Fair.
John La Rose and other activist colleagues and comrades in New Beacon had formed the political and cultural Alliance of the Black Parents Movement, the Black Youth Movement, Bradford Black, and the Race Today Collective. There was also a unity of purpose with the black radical publishers Bogle L’Ouverture Publications, set up in 1968 by Eric and Jessica Huntley in West London. In the early 1980s, out of the common vision between New Beacon Books, Bogle L’Ouverture, and the Race Today Collective, was born the idea of the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books. It was a pioneering vision which would come to fruition in 1982, which would produce twelve Book Fairs and numerous accompanying cultural events at each one – including the iconic International Poetry Evenings – and which would pave the way for every British Black, Asian, and minority ethnic cultural initiative thereafter.
