SURGE

Jay Bernards extraordinary debut is a fearlessly original exploration of the black British archive: an enquiry into the New Cross F ire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in south London in which thirteen young black people were killed.Dubbed the New Cross Massacre, the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met by the state triggered a new era of race relations in Britain.Tracing a line from New Cross to the towers of blood of the Grenfell fire, this u rgent collecti...[Read more]