Marc Wadsworth
British political activist formerly a member of the Labour Party
Marc Wadsworth is a British black rights campaigner, broadcast and print journalist and BBC filmmaker and radio producer. He founded the Anti-Racist Alliance in 1991 and two years later, also helped set up the justice campaign for murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Wadsworth launched an early citizen-journalism news portal, The-Latest.com. In 2008, Wadsworth's reporting triggered the resignation of Mayor of London Boris Johnson's spokesman.
In 2018, Wadsworth was expelled from the Labour Party for bringing the party into disrepute. This decision related to a confrontation on 30 June 2016 between him and Labour MP Ruth Smeeth at the launch of the Chakrabarti Inquiry report into allegations of antisemitism and other forms of racism in the Labour Party.
Early life
Wadsworth's father, George "Busha" Rowe, travelled to Britain from Jamaica in 1944 to serve as ground crew in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II, first at RAF Hunmanby Moor training base, at Filey, North Yorkshire, as part of a contingent of 2,000 volunteers from the Caribbean. Rowe went back to Jamaica in 1946 before returning to Britain as a barber on the SS Empire Windrush two years later. With four other Jamaicans who had also been passengers on the ship, Rowe, aged 24, went to Birmingham, where they got a place to live and factory jobs. Rowe told the Birmingham Gazette newspaper the city had a "colour bar" and was "unfriendly".
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