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Gary YoungeAlfred Knobler FellowIn 1996, he was sent to the The Washington Post after being awarded the Lawrence Stern fellowship, which assigns a young British journalist to the Washington Post's national desk each year. His first book, No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep 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 last year. 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. 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. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Tara.
Selected Articles and Videos: Obama and the Power of Symbols The US needs to talk about class, but politicians don't have the vocabulary America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day Ranking race against gender is the first step towards fundamentalism Some Things Even Obama Can't Transcend Gary Younge reports from South Carolina Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Guardian here. Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Nation here.
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