Gary Younge is a British Journalist, Author, Broadcaster and Academic who became The Guardian’s US correspondent in 2003, where he lived in New York and Chicago until 2015. During that time, he reported on major news stories, such as the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, the Wall Street crash, and Barack Obama’s election. Gary wrote several books reflecting his years in the United States including 2002’s No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South, 2006’s Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States and 2013’s The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream. 

Gary won the Anthony Lukas Book Prize from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 2017 for Another Day in the Death of America, as well as the Orwell Prize for Journalism for his articles: ‘Lest we remember: how Britain buried its history of slavery’ ‘How racism shaped my critical eye’, and the podcast, Facts That Matter. Gary was named on the 2020 list of 100 Great Black Britons and among the Top 100 of the most influential people in the UK of African/African-Caribbean descent for 2020 and 2021. Gary’s 2023 book, “Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter,” is a collection of his journalism spanning four decades of reporting from Britain, the US, and South Africa. The New Statesman described it as “a reminder of how much racism has changed and how much it has stayed the same.”