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Gary Younge

February 15, 2024

Gary Andrew Younge FAcSS, FRSL (born January 1969)[1][2] is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for The Guardian newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointed as professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and would be leaving his post at The Guardian, where he was a columnist for two decades, although he continued to write for the newspaper.[3] He also writes for the New Statesman.

Gary Younge

FAcSS FRSL
Younge in 2014
BornGary Andrew Younge
January 1969 (age 55)
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation
  • Columnist
  • academic
  • author
  • broadcaster
Alma materHeriot-Watt University
City, University of London
Subject
Notable works
  1. No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South (2002)
  2. The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Dream (2013)
  3. Another Day in the Death of America (2016)
SpouseTara Mack
Children2
Website
www.garyyounge.com

Younge is the author of the books No Place Like Home (2002), Stranger in a Strange Land (2006), Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? (2011), The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (2013) and Another Day in the Death of America (2016).

Early years and education edit

Younge grew up in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where he was born.[4] He is of Barbadian extraction.[5]

In 1984, aged 15, he briefly joined the Young Socialists, the youth section of the Workers Revolutionary Party, but left a year later after harassment from other party members, including allegedly being accused of working for MI5 and claims that he supported Fidel Castro only because of his ethnicity.[6] At the age of 17, Younge went to teach English in a United Nations Eritrean refugee school in Sudan with the educational charity Project Trust.[7]

From 1987 to 1992, he attended Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied French and Russian,[8][9] and was elected Vice President (Welfare) of the Student Association, a paid sabbatical post that he held for a year.[9]

Career edit

In his final year at university, Younge was awarded a bursary from The Guardian to study journalism at The City University in London, and after a short internship at Yorkshire Television he joined The Guardian in 1993, and has since reported from all over Europe, Africa, the US and the Caribbean.[7]

His book, No Place like Home, in which he retraced the route of the civil rights Freedom Riders, was published in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His subsequent books are Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (2006), Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? (2011), The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (2013), and most recently Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives (2016), a "deeply affecting" account of everyday fatalities among young people across the US,[10] which in 2017 won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.[7] Younge also wrote a monthly column for The Nation, "Beneath the Radar".[11]

In 2019, Younge was appointed a professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester University, writing his last column for The Guardian in January 2020.[3][12]

Younge was named on the 2020 list of 100 Great Black Britons.[13] In addition, on the 2020 and 2021 Powerlist, Younge was listed among the Top 100 of the most influential people in the UK from African/African-Caribbean descent.[14]

His 2023 book, Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter, a collection of his journalism covering four decades of reporting from Britain, the US, and South Africa, was described in the New Statesman as "a reminder of how much racism has changed and how much it has stayed the same."[15]

Personal life edit

In 2011, Younge relocated to Chicago, where he lived with his immediate family until returning to UK in 2015.[7] In 2015, he announced his intention to move to Hackney in London,[16] with his wife and two children.[7] His brother Pat Younge was chief creative officer of BBC Vision,[17] becoming Chair of Council at Cardiff University in 2022.[18]

Awards and honours edit

Bibliography edit

  • No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. 2002. ISBN 9781578064885. OCLC 49226176.
  • Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States. New York: New Press. 2006. ISBN 9781595580689. OCLC 62421357.
  • Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?. New York: Nation Books. 2011. ISBN 9781568586601. OCLC 663952482.
  • The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2013. ISBN 9781608463220. OCLC 829740195.
  • Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. New York: Nation Books. 2016. ISBN 9781568589756. OCLC 945232454.
  • Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter. London: Faber and Faber. 2023. ISBN 978-0571376827.

References edit

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Gary YOUNGE - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b Younge, Gary (10 January 2020), "In these bleak times, imagine a world where you can thrive", The Guardian.
  4. ^ Younge, Gary (16 June 2007). "Made in Stevenage". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  5. ^ Munshi, Neil (30 September 2016). "Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge review — an indictment of US gun culture". Financial Times.
  6. ^ Younge, Gary (19 February 2000). "Memoirs of a teenage Trot". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e "About", Gary Younge website.
  8. ^ Donaldson, Brian (20 May 2010). "Gary Younge - Who Are We and Should it Matter in the 21st Century?". The List.
  9. ^ a b Younge, Gary (16 February 2007). "Higher education | Revolution by degrees". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  10. ^ Busby, Margaret (25 September 2016), "Books: Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge" (review), The Sunday Times.
  11. ^ "Gary Younge". The Nation. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Gary Younge becomes a Professor at The University of Manchester". The University of Manchester. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  13. ^ a b . 2020. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  14. ^ a b Mills, Kelly-Ann (25 October 2019). "Raheem Sterling joins Meghan and Stormzy in top 100 most influential black Brits". Mirror. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  15. ^ Jeraj, Samir (13 March 2023). "From Margaret Atwood to Gary Younge: new books reviewed in short". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  16. ^ Younge, Gary (1 July 2015). "Farewell to America - Gary Younge". The Guardian.
  17. ^ Media Guardian 100 2010: 98. Pat Younge, The Guardian, 12 July 2010.
  18. ^ Chair of Council: Pat Younge www.cardiff.ac.uk Retrieved 19 March 2023
  19. ^ (PDF). Heriot-Watt University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  20. ^ "Honorary Awards Ceremony", London South Bank University
  21. ^ GNM press office, "Gary Younge wins prestigious James Cameron award", The Guardian, 7 October 2009.
  22. ^ "Guardian's Gary Younge wins prestigious James Cameron prize", The Guardian, 8 October 2009.
  23. ^ Sampson, Jessie, "Winners of The Comment Awards 2015 announced" 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Newsworks, 24 November 2015.
  24. ^ "David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism", Harvard Kennedy School.
  25. ^ "About the Sandford Awards", The Sandford St Martin Trust.
  26. ^ . Academy of Social Sciences. 19 October 2016. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  27. ^ "Honorary Graduates". Cardiff University. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  28. ^ . Mount Holyoke College. 17 May 2019. Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  29. ^ Bayley, Sian (6 July 2021). "RSL launches three-year school reading project as new fellows announced". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

External links edit

  Media related to Gary Younge at Wikimedia Commons

February 15, 2024
gary, younge, gary, andrew, younge, facss, frsl, born, january, 1969, british, journalist, author, broadcaster, academic, editor, large, guardian, newspaper, which, joined, 1993, november, 2019, announced, that, younge, been, appointed, professor, sociology, u. Gary Andrew Younge FAcSS FRSL born January 1969 1 2 is a British journalist author broadcaster and academic He was editor at large for The Guardian newspaper which he joined in 1993 In November 2019 it was announced that Younge had been appointed as professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and would be leaving his post at The Guardian where he was a columnist for two decades although he continued to write for the newspaper 3 He also writes for the New Statesman Gary YoungeFAcSS FRSLYounge in 2014BornGary Andrew YoungeJanuary 1969 age 55 Stevenage Hertfordshire EnglandOccupationColumnist academic author broadcasterAlma materHeriot Watt UniversityCity University of LondonSubjectRacial politics Left wing politicsNotable worksNo Place Like Home A Black Briton s Journey Through the American South 2002 The Speech The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr s Dream 2013 Another Day in the Death of America 2016 SpouseTara MackChildren2Websitewww wbr garyyounge wbr comYounge is the author of the books No Place Like Home 2002 Stranger in a Strange Land 2006 Who Are We And Should It Matter in the 21st Century 2011 The Speech The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr s Dream 2013 and Another Day in the Death of America 2016 Contents 1 Early years and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Awards and honours 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External linksEarly years and education editYounge grew up in Stevenage Hertfordshire where he was born 4 He is of Barbadian extraction 5 In 1984 aged 15 he briefly joined the Young Socialists the youth section of the Workers Revolutionary Party but left a year later after harassment from other party members including allegedly being accused of working for MI5 and claims that he supported Fidel Castro only because of his ethnicity 6 At the age of 17 Younge went to teach English in a United Nations Eritrean refugee school in Sudan with the educational charity Project Trust 7 From 1987 to 1992 he attended Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland where he studied French and Russian 8 9 and was elected Vice President Welfare of the Student Association a paid sabbatical post that he held for a year 9 Career editIn his final year at university Younge was awarded a bursary from The Guardian to study journalism at The City University in London and after a short internship at Yorkshire Television he joined The Guardian in 1993 and has since reported from all over Europe Africa the US and the Caribbean 7 His book No Place like Home in which he retraced the route of the civil rights Freedom Riders was published in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award His subsequent books are Stranger in a Strange Land Encounters in the Disunited States 2006 Who Are We And Should It Matter in the 21st Century 2011 The Speech The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr s Dream 2013 and most recently Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives 2016 a deeply affecting account of everyday fatalities among young people across the US 10 which in 2017 won the J Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism 7 Younge also wrote a monthly column for The Nation Beneath the Radar 11 In 2019 Younge was appointed a professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester University writing his last column for The Guardian in January 2020 3 12 Younge was named on the 2020 list of 100 Great Black Britons 13 In addition on the 2020 and 2021 Powerlist Younge was listed among the Top 100 of the most influential people in the UK from African African Caribbean descent 14 His 2023 book Dispatches from the Diaspora From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter a collection of his journalism covering four decades of reporting from Britain the US and South Africa was described in the New Statesman as a reminder of how much racism has changed and how much it has stayed the same 15 Personal life editIn 2011 Younge relocated to Chicago where he lived with his immediate family until returning to UK in 2015 7 In 2015 he announced his intention to move to Hackney in London 16 with his wife and two children 7 His brother Pat Younge was chief creative officer of BBC Vision 17 becoming Chair of Council at Cardiff University in 2022 18 Awards and honours edit2007 Honorary doctorate from Heriot Watt University 19 2007 Honorary doctorate from London South Bank University 20 2009 James Cameron Award for the combined moral vision and professional integrity of his coverage of the Barack Obama election campaign 21 22 2015 Foreign Commentator of the Year by The Comment Awards 23 2015 David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard University s Shorenstein Center 24 2016 Sandford Award for radio TV and online programmes that reflect religious spiritual or ethical themes 25 2016 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences FAcSS 26 2017 Honorary doctorate from Cardiff University 27 2017 James Aaronson Career Achievement Award from Hunter College City University of New York 2019 Honorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke College 28 2020 Powerlist of the Top 100 most influential people in the UK of African African Caribbean descent 14 2020 100 Great Black Britons 13 2021 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 29 Bibliography editNo Place Like Home A Black Briton s Journey Through the American South Jackson Mississippi University Press of Mississippi 2002 ISBN 9781578064885 OCLC 49226176 Stranger in a Strange Land Encounters in the Disunited States New York New Press 2006 ISBN 9781595580689 OCLC 62421357 Who Are We And Should It Matter in the 21st Century New York Nation Books 2011 ISBN 9781568586601 OCLC 663952482 The Speech The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr s Dream Chicago Haymarket Books 2013 ISBN 9781608463220 OCLC 829740195 Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives New York Nation Books 2016 ISBN 9781568589756 OCLC 945232454 Dispatches from the Diaspora From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter London Faber and Faber 2023 ISBN 978 0571376827 References edit Index entry FreeBMD ONS Retrieved 12 January 2018 Gary YOUNGE Personal Appointments Companies House Retrieved 12 January 2018 a b Younge Gary 10 January 2020 In these bleak times imagine a world where you can thrive The Guardian Younge Gary 16 June 2007 Made in Stevenage The Guardian Retrieved 2 October 2016 Munshi Neil 30 September 2016 Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge review an indictment of US gun culture Financial Times Younge Gary 19 February 2000 Memoirs of a teenage Trot The Guardian Retrieved 7 May 2016 a b c d e About Gary Younge website Donaldson Brian 20 May 2010 Gary Younge Who Are We and Should it Matter in the 21st Century The List a b Younge Gary 16 February 2007 Higher education Revolution by degrees The Guardian Retrieved 7 May 2016 Busby Margaret 25 September 2016 Books Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge review The Sunday Times Gary Younge The Nation 22 March 2010 Retrieved 19 January 2021 Gary Younge becomes a Professor at The University of Manchester The University of Manchester 5 November 2019 Retrieved 2 December 2020 a b 100 Great Black Britons The Book 2020 Archived from the original on 12 February 2022 Retrieved 29 October 2020 a b Mills Kelly Ann 25 October 2019 Raheem Sterling joins Meghan and Stormzy in top 100 most influential black Brits Mirror Retrieved 20 April 2020 Jeraj Samir 13 March 2023 From Margaret Atwood to Gary Younge new books reviewed in short New Statesman Retrieved 17 June 2023 Younge Gary 1 July 2015 Farewell to America Gary Younge The Guardian Media Guardian 100 2010 98 Pat Younge The Guardian 12 July 2010 Chair of Council Pat Younge www cardiff ac uk Retrieved 19 March 2023 Honorary Graduates PDF Heriot Watt University Archived from the original PDF on 21 October 2016 Retrieved 16 September 2016 Honorary Awards Ceremony London South Bank University GNM press office Gary Younge wins prestigious James Cameron award The Guardian 7 October 2009 Guardian s Gary Younge wins prestigious James Cameron prize The Guardian 8 October 2009 Sampson Jessie Winners of The Comment Awards 2015 announced Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Newsworks 24 November 2015 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism Harvard Kennedy School About the Sandford Awards The Sandford St Martin Trust Eighty four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Academy of Social Sciences 19 October 2016 Archived from the original on 6 June 2019 Retrieved 5 August 2017 Honorary Graduates Cardiff University Retrieved 21 July 2017 Commencement Remarks and Citations 2019 Mount Holyoke College 17 May 2019 Archived from the original on 22 December 2019 Retrieved 15 January 2024 Bayley Sian 6 July 2021 RSL launches three year school reading project as new fellows announced The Bookseller Retrieved 6 July 2021 External links editOfficial website Twitter Column archive at The Guardian Memoirs of a teenage Trot The Guardian 19 February 2000 Column archive at The Nation Appearances on C SPAN Article archive at Journalisted Gary Younge at Curlie nbsp Media related to Gary Younge at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gary Younge amp oldid 1195903110, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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