Gary Younge

Gary Younge FAcSS FRSL
Younge in 2014
Born	Gary Andrew Younge January 1969 (age 55) Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Columnist academic author broadcaster
Alma mater	Heriot-Watt University City, University of London
Subject	Racial politics Left-wing politics
Notable works	No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South (2002) The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Dream (2013) Another Day in the Death of America (2016)
Spouse	Tara Mack
Children	2
Website
www.garyyounge.com

Gary Andrew Younge FAcSS, FRSL (born January 1969)^[1][2] is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for The Guardian newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointed as professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and would be leaving his post at The Guardian, where he was a columnist for two decades, although he continued to write for the newspaper.^[3] He also writes for the New Statesman.

Younge is the author of the books No Place Like Home (2002), Stranger in a Strange Land (2006), Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? (2011), The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (2013) and Another Day in the Death of America (2016).