Let’s Talk About Race with Gary Younge
20 May 2024
Thursday, 23 May
The EDI Directorate will be hosting a new instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk’ series entitled ‘Let’s Talk About Race’. This will take place on Thursday, 23 May at 12pm at Coupland Building 3 – Theatre A.
Our guest speaker will be Gary Younge, an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.
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 has written six books:
- Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter;
- 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
- 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.
For more information on Gary’s work, please visit his website.
Please note that this event will take place in-person only. If you are unable to attend, we still encourage you to access the ticket booking page and request a recording of the event.
If you have any questions, please email equalityanddiversity@manchester.ac.uk