George the Poet – Me, Music, and the War on Blackness

George the Poet

Gary Younge

Gary Younge is 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. 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 and Who Are We?—And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman. He lives in London with his wife and two children.