CONNIE WILLIAMS: Restaurateur, Social Worker, Storyteller, and Author
Reading Time 1 minsCaldwell Taylor March 9, 2015 Trinidadian Connie Williams opened the “Calypso Restaurant” on Mc Dougal Street [in New York City] in 1943. She served up a West Indian cuisine, West Indian laughter and hot calypso: Connie`s place sizzled, and it sat a host of stars. CLR James [1901-1989] and many other intellectual luminaries came to Connie’s to nyam, to jam to West Indian music and of course to talk radical politics. In those days James was the most learned of the Trotskyites: The so-called “Trots” were followers of Leon Trotsky [1879-1941], Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician who… Read More »CONNIE WILLIAMS: Restaurateur, Social Worker, Storyteller, and Author