These essays speak to his characteristic blend of discernment, clarity and humane vision, a tonic for our fighting spirit in wearying times.

Gary's always impressive writing encompasses the voices of so many people who would otherwise go completely unheard. 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. The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. Being seen only as the thing that makes you different through the lens of those with the power to make that difference matter really is limiting.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. One of the first columns I wrote for the Guardian, about the NATO bombing of Bosnia, was spiked because the comment editor at the time thought I should stick to subjects closer to home. 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. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes.

Covering three decades of unparalleled reporting throughout the Black diaspora, this catalog of electrifying yet nuanced dispatches puts readers at the heart of the action, guiding them through world-shaking events, introducing them at first-hand to key players, and solidifying Younge’s standing as one of the most important political journalists of his generation. Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye. Gary has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the tea party to hip hop culture. And Should it Matter in the 21st century, Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South.

He is currently the Director, Special Projects at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), an international organisation that aims to expand and enhance the contributions the African diaspora make to African development. No other journalist/author I know of, has his intellectual vigour, emotional understanding and grace. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. Between following Nelson Mandela during his first election campaign in South Africa and reflecting on a journey to Barbados to bury his mother, Gary Younge here interviews major figures including Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, and the Grime artist Stormzy.

Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Gary Younge has been there on the frontline throughout this time, translating history into words fused with truth, power and illumination. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. And I was sorry the young man said that,’ reflected Hughes, ‘for no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine.A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in Britain. 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. Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the Black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye. In the last thirty years, no one has chronicled the most important events in Black life across the globe than Gary Younge.