Anti-Racist Education Network with Prof. Gary Younge, 30 Jan 2025, 3-4:30pm

The MIE Anti-Racist Education Network warmly invites you to our upcoming seminar on 30 January 2025. We are honoured to host Professor Gary Younge as our guest speaker.

Gary is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist and editor-at-large 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. 

At the age of just 24, Gary was sent to report for the Guardian on South Africa’s first democratic elections where he accompanied Nelson Mandela on the election trail. Over the ensuing three decades, he has had a ringside seat during the biggest events to impact the Black diaspora: from joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama’s victory and entering New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina, to interviewing such luminaries as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy.

He has witnessed how much change is possible and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations, which he recounts in his powerful new book, Dispatches from the Diaspora

We invite you to join us for this inspiring conversation with Gary Younge on 30 January 2025. Please use the following link to book your ticket:

 https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/umit-yildiz/t-vvgvoqd . 

We look forward to seeing you there.

Where: Ellen Wilkinson Building,  A2-6

When: 3pm – 4.30pm