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Gary Younge

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Gary Younge is a sociology professor at the University of Manchester. His most recent book is Dispatches from the Diaspora: from Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

January 2026

  • Illustration: Matt Kenyon

    double quotation markThe life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops

    Gary Younge
    Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear, says professor of sociology Gary Younge

September 2025

  • An England flag at Weoley Castle in Birmingham where hundreds of flags have been erected on lamp posts around the area

    Today in Focus
    Flags and fury: why the St George’s cross is everywhere – podcast

    Esther Addley on why the union jack and St George’s flags are appearing on lamp-posts, bridges and roundabouts in England. Gary Younge explains why not everyone is happy
    Podcast28:16

May 2025

  • Gary Younge wearing a red jumper

    Today in Focus
    How to not get pigeonholed - with Gary Younge - podcast

    Podcast23:16
  • Women Of The ATS: New West Indian Recruits<br>A group of ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits from the West Indies arrive at camp in an army car, Britain, 1943. (Photo by Press Agency photographer/Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

    double quotation markMillions of the black and brown people who fought for Europe’s freedom didn’t get a VE Day

    Gary Younge

October 2024

  • Gary Younge, 2007. Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015) – podcast

    This week from 2015: After 12 years in the US, Gary Younge is preparing to depart – as the country’s racial frictions seem certain to spark another summer of conflict. By Gary Younge
    Podcast41:15

September 2024

  • Headshot of UK MP Diane Abbott, sitting looking sideways with her arm on a table

    Diane Abbott on her standoff with Labour: ‘It was a question of who blinked first. And they did’

    The MP is used to facing down hostility, from Tory attacks to racist bullying. But this year’s ‘humiliating’ treatment by her own party was different. She talks breakthroughs, battles and not backing down

March 2024

  • Diane Abbott in 2019

    double quotation markIn Britain’s degraded politics, fighting racism has become a cynical game

    Gary Younge
    This goes far beyond a Tory donor’s racist comments about Diane Abbott, and Labour’s opportunistic response, says sociology professor Gary Younge

September 2023

  • ‘I wanted to be sincere and outrageous’ … Chris Ofili.

    ‘I want it to hit people in the gut’: Chris Ofili on his epic, three-wall Grenfell fresco

    The artist has finally chosen to address the tragedy – with Requiem, a vast work depicting a flaming building, fleeing souls and an ocean of tears. He explains why he placed an artist who died at its centre

March 2023

  • Diana Ejaita for Gary Younge

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    Lest we remember: how Britain buried its history of slavery

    Slavery is a central and indisputable fact of the nation’s past. But our failure to remember what really happened is more than mere forgetfulness
  • Gary Younge photographed in Ridley Road market, Dalston, near his home.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Gary Younge’s cultural highlights

    The author and academic on Richard Wright’s great unpublished novel, the joy of Brighton pier and dining alongside Gilbert and George
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    ‘I have no problem being regarded as a Black writer, but I won’t be confined by it’: Gary Younge on race, politics and pigeonholing

    At 24, Gary Younge was sent to report for the Guardian on South Africa’s first democratic elections. Thirty years on, he reflects on his career, how the world has changed – and what still needs to be done

January 2023

  • Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, where a mass shooting took place in 2015

    Book of the day
    Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster review – US gun violence under the microscope

    A brilliant storyteller attempts to get at the roots of the American obsession with firearms – but leaves readers feeling as hopeless as when they started

January 2022

  • Illustration : Klawe Rzeczy

    The Audio Long Read
    What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now – podcast

    We were told coronavirus didn’t discriminate, but it didn’t need to – society had already done that for us. But there is a path to a fairer future if we want it
    Podcast35:11

December 2021

  • Gary Younge - racism after covid

    The long read
    What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now

    The long read: We were told coronavirus didn’t discriminate, but it didn’t need to – society had already done that for us. But there is a path to a fairer future if we want it

July 2021

  • Why every single statue should come down Long read

    The Audio Long Read
    Why every single statue should come down – podcast

    Podcast28:55
  • DO NOT USE. FOR WEEKEND COVER 10 JULY 2021. NO OTHER USAGE UNTIL AFTER THAT DATE. Lewis Hamilton photographed in New York, June, 2021

    Lewis Hamilton: ‘Everything I’d suppressed came up – I had to speak out’

June 2021

  • The statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, toppled during a Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June 2020, on display at M Shed in Bristol

    Today in Focus
    Why every statue should come down

    Podcast31:44
  • composite of 15 or so statues

    The long read
    Why every single statue should come down

January 2021

  • Miami Protesters at AFI-CIO Rally<br>383303 05: (NO NEWSWEEK, NO U.S. NEWS) Protesters at an AFI-CIO sponsored demonstration in Miami, Florida symbolically tape close their mouths December 1, 2000 to protest the curtailed hand re-count of Miami Dade County ballots from the presidential election. A Leon County Circuit Court judge ruled that the ballots must be kept for safekeeping in Tallahassee until a verdict had been reached. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Liaison)

    The Audio Long Read
    Trump's defeat and the death throes of the Civil War – podcast

    How Republicans applied old school racism to new demographics, and lost
    Podcast28:35

November 2020

  • Michelle and Barack Obama January 2009

    Book of the week
    A Promised Land by Barack Obama review – an impressive but incomplete memoir

    Gary Younge on a memoir with vivid detail and captivating pillow talk, but one that leaves out too much to give a clear view of Obama’s first term
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