Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 115 )

• Reading Black Writers

  

  Until George Floyd was murdered on 25 May 2020, I had not begun to acknowledge, let alone unearth, my inherent racism. That racism includes not reading or even... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2022 BOOKS

• Stephen Lawrence Day 22 April 2022 #sldayfdn

  

  This is from Stephen’s Story on the Stephen Lawrence Day website: Stephen Lawrence was born and grew up in south-east London, where he lived with his parents... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2022 BOOKS

• Ukraine: & How We Can Help #StandWithUkraine

  

  Ukraine flag. Credit: Ayhan Altun/Getty Images click on the images below for links about where and how to donate money or supplies and how to support people... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2022 BOOKS

• Valentine’s Day Traditions

  

  There are at least three different saints who answer to the name Valentine or Valentinus. One legend of St Valentine tells how, when in prison, he sent a... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2022 BOOKS

• Worldwide Ways of Welcoming New Year

  

  Different peoples in different countries do different things to welcome a new year. In SIBERIA, in Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2022 BOOKS

• Buy Black for Christmas (and Beyond)

  

  If you’re white, like me, perhaps you haven’t consciously thought about seeking out Black-owned businesses and shops to buy from. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2021 BOOKS

• The Eleven, No, Twelve Days of COP26

  

  When the Queen addressed world leaders at the beginning of COP26 she said: Act for our children and our children’s children. COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2021 BOOKS

• Betty Campbell Taught Black British History Every Month

  

  On September 29, 2021, in Cardiff, a statue was unveiled to Betty Campbell, the first Black British headteacher in Wales, and the first to teach Black British... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2021 BOOKS

• White Allies Network, and Black British History

  

  On 2 September, I joined the White Allies Network. They are, as they say on their website: A network of people that are committed to learn and do what it takes... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2021 BOOKS

• Reading as a Writer. Writing as a Reader. And the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

  

  Last week a friend of mine and I talked about the six books shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. We’ve done it before and it’s always... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2021 BOOKS

• Black Minds Matter (BMM) : Donations #BMMUK21K

  

  I’ve been in therapy, but the reasons for my therapy have never included the trauma of racism, of living inside a black or brown skin in a white-supremacist... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2021 BOOKS

• Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

  

  This week is the week of the Women’s Prize Virtual Shortlist Festival. For the (almost invisible) amount of £12 you’ll have access to three evenings of... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 BOOKS

• Opening up Set to Blossom at Home. But What About India (her Vaccine Generosity...

  

  A beautiful blossom for our oh-so-close-to-lockdown-easing here in the UK. The Wayfaring Tree (Virburnum lantana): a sign you’re homeward bound. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2021 BOOKS

• Stephen Lawrence Day, 22 April 2021

  

  We will no longer ignore, the racism we all deplore. We will never forget Stephen Lawrence. Directed by Simon Frederick. Written by Simon Frederick, Marcus Jone... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2021 BOOKS

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Bill Gates (& Gordon Brown)

  

  In this Guardian review of Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gordon Brown writes: Success [in combating climate change] will come by demonstrating... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2021 BOOKS

• A Valentine to the Earth: Terra Carta

  

  On 11 January the Prince of Wales announced Terra Carta, Earth Charter, a Magna Carta for the twenty-first century: the basis of a recovery plan for nature,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 BOOKS

• Feeling Low? Try Karunavirus. Seriously.

  

  I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty low about the state of our corona-contaminated world (not to mention other depressing events) so I went... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 BOOKS

• When This Is Over … and Some Christmas Lights for the Dark Winter Nights

  

  When this is over, may we never again take for granted a handshake with a stranger, full shelves at the store, conversations with neighbours, a crowded... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2020 BOOKS

• Bookshop.org: an Online Bookshop That Supports Indie Bookshops. And, ‘It’s Easie...

  

  Bookshop.org, as the Guardian articles below suggest, is exactly what the publishing world has been waiting for. Bookshop.org supports independent bookshops... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS

• October is Black History Month in the UK. But Shouldn’t Black History Be Taught...

  

  Black History Month began in America as an annual History Week, in 1925. That year, Black historian Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, announced... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 BOOKS