Join us for a conversation with distinguished columnist and author Gary Younge as we explore some profundly American issues.
Gary is a Nation Institute fellow. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and raised in Stevenage near London, He's had an extensive career as a journalist, and has written several books including No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South (Picador, 1999), was published to much acclaim and was released in the United States in 2002. His second book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (New Press, 2006), was released on both sides of the Atlantic. His book on politics and identity, Who are We — and Should it Matter in the 21st Century?, was published in the UK in 2010. He was awarded Newspaper Journalist of the Year by the Ethnic Minority Media Awards in the UK for three straight years 2002 to 2004. He was also nominated for Foreign Journalist of the Year in 2000 for his reporting from Zimbabwe. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious James Cameron Prize for his reports on the election of Barack Obama which combined on the road reporting with personal insights.
Younge has written for the Los Angeles Times, GQ Style, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Hello! He also helped produce two television documentaries for the BBC: Keepin' it Real: On the Trial of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and Minister of Rage on the banning of Louis Farrakhan from the UK.
His most recent book Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives is now available from Nation Books.
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