Younge

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media Center. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives , The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King's Dream , Who Are We?: And Should it Matter in the 21st Century , Stranger in a...See more

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media Center. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives , The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King's Dream , Who Are We?: 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 has also written for The New York Review of Books , Granta , GQ , The Financial Times , and The New Statesman , and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. He lives in London. See less