by Gary Younge
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Gary Younge is editor-at-large for the Guardian, a columnist for the Nation magazine, and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute. He is the author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream; Who Are We—And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?; Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States; and No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey Through the American South. In 2015 he won the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. “It’s the powerless on whose behalf he writes,” said the center’s acting director. In 2009 his coverage of the Obama campaign was awarded the James Cameron award for his reporting’s “combined moral vision and professional integrity.” Gary has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the Tea Party to hip-hop culture. In 2007 he was awarded honorary doctorates by his alma mater, Heriot-Watt University, and by London South Bank University. In 2009 he was appointed the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor in Public Policy and Social Administration at Brooklyn College (CUNY), where he taught both graduate and undergraduate students for two years.
Appointed the Guardian’s New York correspondent in 2003, Gary moved to Chicago in 2011 before returning to London in 2015 with his wife and two children.
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