Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

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He has written six books including Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We? Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he isan editorial board member of The Nation magazine. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to ‘imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. A fear of being ‘pigeon-holed’ is one of the most common crippling anxieties of any minority in any profession.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, joins revelers on Chicago's South Side for the evening of Barack Obama's first presidential victory, files from Ferguson as the Black Lives Matter movement starts to make waves around the world, and visits Zimbabwe during the country's descent into crisis. This advice, which came from older white journalists (pretty much the only older journalists available when I started out), was rarely malicious. Dispatches from the Diaspora is a collection of extraordinary range that exemplifies Younge's gift to his readers over the years - a journalism that is sober and clear eyed, but always undergirded by optimism and faith in humanity.Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and a Type Media fellow. Lewisham is the London Borough of Culture 2022 and has a proud history of supporting refugees and migrants.

Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism. The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. Being seen only as the thing that makes you different through the lens of those with the power to make that difference matter really is limiting. These essays speak to his characteristic blend of discernment, clarity and humane vision, a tonic for our fighting spirit in wearying times.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. In 2009 he won the James Cameron award for the “combined moral vision and professional integrity” of his coverage of the Obama campaign.In the last thirty years, no one has chronicled the most important events in Black life across the globe than Gary Younge. He reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, joins revelers on Chicago’s South Side for the evening of Barack Obama’s first presidential victory, files from Ferguson as the Black Lives Matter movement starts to make waves around the world, and visits Zimbabwe during the country’s descent into crisis.