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    ‘Music shouted louder than racism’: the pioneering Black nightclub born in far-right east London

    Jul 25, 2023 4 minutes

    In 1983, Canning Town in the borough of Newham in east London returned the highest number of votes for the National Front in the country. A year later, the 16-year-old Black boy Eustace Pryce was murdered during a confrontation with racists in the area. By 1986 Newham registered the UK’s highest number of racist attacks. “It was a no-go area for Black people,” says Zak, then manager of London Weekend Radio (LWR). “People in cars would be shouting obscenities and calling you the N-word. It was a hostile environment.”

    Despite this, between 1982 and 86, Black people from all across London drove to has been digging into its influential history to produce a new booklet and podcast on the club.

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