we re starting our run with a 72 seconds silence. just in terms of the rest of carnival, what is the feeling amongst people at the moment here? this is the first time carnival has been on the streets since 2019. it means a heck of a lot for people. i grew up in west london and i remember coming to carnival every year and dad carrying me on my shoulders and my sister on my uncle so we have roots connected to carnival so the fact it is back in the first time in three years is incredible and the atmosphere here is electric and i feel the energy. people want to come down here on a sunday morning. there are people coming at 8:30. it has been an amazing experience. thank you for speaking to us. this is just the start of the days, there will be musicians to show and we will be giving updates at the day. the prince of wales has guest edited a special edition of the british african caribbean newspaper, the voice, to mark its 40th anniversary. it carries interviews with baroness doreen
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in a historic event, and we re also doing a 1.5k walk, so that is how we re doing it. amazing. it is also a tribute to grenfell tower, isn t it? you re all in green. tell me how that mean so much to the community? it does because grenfell was a tragedy that should never have happened and impacted on primarily black and brown people affects us all because it could have been ourfamily members, it could have been us in there and, actually, how many years later and still no justice? so we have remembering grenfell on our backs because we have to remember the 72 people, the 72 lives that were lost in the life that we impacted, so we re here really honouring those people, really, and we have sold t shirts, we have donated with regards to them coming down as well and some people are coming down and so i think it is important to mark that.
so we have an historic event in a historic event, and we re also doing a 1.5k walk, so that is how we re doing it. amazing. it is also a tribute to grenfell tower, isn t it? you re all in green. tell me how that mean so much to the community? it does because grenfell was a tragedy that should never have happened and impacted on primarily black and brown people affects us all because it could have been ourfamily members, it could have been us in there and, actually, how many years later and still no justice? so we have remembering grenfell on our backs because we have to remember the 72 people, the 72 lives that were lost in the life that we impacted, so we re here really honouring those people, really, and we have sold t shirts, we have donated with regards to them coming down as well and some people are coming down and so i think it is important to mark that.