Gary Younge
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Born | Gary Andrew Younge January 1969 (age 55) Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England |
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Alma mater | Heriot-Watt University City, University of London |
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Spouse | Tara Mack |
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Gary Andrew Younge
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
Younge grew up in
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
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
In 2019, Younge was appointed a professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at
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
In 2011, Younge relocated to
Awards and honours
- 2007: 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: 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
- No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. 2002. OCLC 49226176.
- Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States. New York: New Press. 2006. OCLC 62421357.
- Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?. New York: Nation Books. 2011. OCLC 663952482.
- The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2013. OCLC 829740195.
- OCLC 945232454.
- Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter. London: Faber and Faber. 2023. ISBN 978-0571376827.
References
- ^ "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.
- 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
- Official website
- 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
Media related to Gary Younge at Wikimedia Commons