No other journalist/author I know of, has his intellectual vigour, emotional understanding and grace.

These essays speak to his characteristic blend of discernment, clarity and humane vision, a tonic for our fighting spirit in wearying times. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Gary Younge is a journalist who throughout his career has shown a commitment to exploring, explaining and challenging his audience - his work … takes us to uncomfortable places but with clarity, humanity and empathy.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. Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity. His writing has appeared in the New York Times , the New York Review of Books , the Financial Times, GQ, Granta , and beyond. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. This book draws on my journalism from or about the African diaspora, including the Caribbean, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Europe, as well as Britain and the US.

A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, GQ, Granta, and beyond. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England.

Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. Race in particular, and Black people in general, were a couple of the subjects I wanted to focus on. After several years of reporting from all over Europe, Africa, the US and the Caribbean Gary was appointed The Guardian’s New York correspondent in 2003. A journalist who throughout his career has shown a commitment to exploring, explaining and challenging his audience. 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.Younge's work retains a sharp and grounded view, exulting the power of community to make change rather than the promises of individuals. He has written six books including Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We? Gary Younge is an author, broadcaster and award-winning columnist for The Guardian, based in Chicago. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine.

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. These interviews and reports are living history and we owe Younge an incredible debt for capturing these moments. The past 30 years saw the end of apartheid, the election of Barack Obama and the foundation of the Black Lives Matter movement.Dispatches from the Diaspora is a collection of extraordinary range that exemplifies Younge's gift to his readers over the years - a journalism that is sober and clear eyed, but always undergirded by optimism and faith in humanity.