Gary Younge

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 A powerful collection of journalism on race racism and black life and death from one of the nation s leading political voices An outstanding journalist and chronicler BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sharp and grounded NEW STATESMAN Tells our story with clarity and elegance JOHN LEGEND Every citizen should have a copy LEMN SISSAY In short it is a public service NESRINE MALIK For the last three decades Gary Younge has sat ringside during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora witnessing the possibility of change and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to imagine a world in which you might thrive for which there is no evidence And then fight for it

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 nations leading political voices.Outstanding. BERNARDINE EVARISTOSharp and grounded.NEW STATESMANCompelling.TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTTimeless.AFUA HIRSCHHumane.JOHN LEGENDImpressive.JEREMY CORBYNFor the last three decades, Gary Younge has sat ringside with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora and been on the frontline of historic events. He has witnessed the possibilities of change and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that compels you to imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. And then fight for it.

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AND THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARDSaturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an unremarkable day, ten children and teens were killed by gunfire. Far from being considered newsworthy, these everyday fatalities are simply a banal fact.The youngest was nine; the oldest nineteen. None made the news. There was no outrage at their passing. It was simply a day like any other day. Gary Younge picked it at random, searched for the families of these children and here, tells their stories. Another Day in the Death of America explores the way these children lived and lost their short lives, offering a searing portrait of the vulnerability of youth in contemporary America.

Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: theres not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but its the space in which I feel I need to both operate and expand.In this incisive, moving and personal essay, one of the nations leading political voices, explores the burden of representation.Gary Younge analyses the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from underrepresented communities, who break through into elite spaces and the expectations that may come from above, below, within and outwith, from those with power and those without. These are issues that have framed, frustrated, inspired, and inflected his entire working life as a writer.Younge offers reflections on how to navigate representation, power and responsibility while keeping your job, your sanity and your freedom both as a human being and as a writer.

El 23 de noviembre de 2013 murieron diez adolescentes por arma de fuego en Estados Unidos. El más pequeño tenía nueve años; el mayor, diecinueve. Esta cifra, que en muchos otros países habría parecido desorbitada, paso sin apenas atencion entre las noticias de la prensa estadounidense. Como suele ocurrir con las cosas rutinarias. El periodista Gary Younge, entonces corresponsal de The Guardian, se propuso recatar del olvido los nombres y las historias de aquellos diez muchachos. Para ello, recorrio el pais de arriba abajo, entrevisto a los familiares y amigos de las victimas y describio las circunstancias en las que ocurrieron estas tragedias. Con este libro, Younge dibuja un fresco preciso y profundamente humano de la segregacion social y racial en el pais.