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

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No other journalist/author I know of, has his intellectual vigour, emotional understanding and grace. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. These essays speak to his characteristic blend of discernment, clarity and humane vision, a tonic for our fighting spirit in wearying times. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.

A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. Or as the artist Chris Ofili told me, when I asked him during an interview how he responded to the threat of pigeon-holing: ‘Well, pigeons can fly. 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.A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. 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.

No single journalist has done more to shape my understanding of Black diaspora’s experiences in the world today – Gary Younge’s is not a first draft of history, but storytelling that will survive us all. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. 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. It's been formally recognised as a Borough of Sanctuary and is teeming with creative individuals and communities.In 2009 he won the James Cameron award for the “combined moral vision and professional integrity” of his coverage of the Obama campaign. 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. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he isan editorial board member of The Nation magazine.

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