Gary Younge

For the last three decades, Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama's victory, entering New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina, or interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou, and...

Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. It was just another day in America; an unremarkable Saturday on which ten children and teens were killed by gunfire. The youngest was nine; the oldest was nineteen. White, Black, and Latino, they fell in suburbs, hamlets, and ghettos. None made the national news. There was no outrage about their passing. It was just another day...

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 Includes additional material A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. 'Outstanding.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Sharp and grounded.' NEW STATESMAN 'Compelling.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Timeless.' AFUA HIRSCH 'Humane.' JOHN LEGEND 'Impressive.' JEREMY CORBYN For the last three decades,...

Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: there's not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but it's the space in which I feel I need to both operate and expand. In this incisive, moving and personal essay, one of the nation's leading political voices explores the 'burden of representation'....