Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 134 )

• Afrikan Reparations: a Conference

  

  On Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd October, in London, a conference to discuss Afrikan Reparations and to address the legacy of the trafficking and enslavement... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2023 BOOKS

• Black History Month, and David Olusoga

  

  October is Black History Month in the UK, but David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and many many others, including me, think it’s well past time that... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2023 BOOKS

• An Astonishing Blind Pianist

  

  On Friday 8 September we heard Nobuyuki Tsujii (or Nobu to his many many fans). He played Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto at the penultimate 2023 Prom at... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2023 BOOKS

• Flowers from a Stone

  

  Flowers that find their way through stone or rock (or any apparently impenetrable surface) always touch my heart. They manage to flourish in the most... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2023 BOOKS

• Independence Day: Two Dissenting Points of View

  

  Independence Day, celebrated in America on the fourth of July, commemorates the Declaration of Independence, ratified on the fourth of July 1776. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2023 BOOKS

• Windrush, 75 Years on

  

  Seventy-five years ago, on 22 June 1948, HMT (His Majesty’s Transport) Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, on the River Thames. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2023 BOOKS

• What Does It Mean to Be Good?

  

  In a 2013 article by Steve Taylor PhD in Psychology Today, good is defined as: a lack of self-centredness … the ability to empathise with other people, feel... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2023 BOOKS

• Tom Titanic: a Welsh Hero Remembered

  

  On 15 April I went to Cemaes, the northernmost town on the Ynys Môn coast, with my cousin Alex Leslie, and my sister Lucinda Mackworth-Young. Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2023 BOOKS

• Older Women: Elder, Not Elderly

  

  It’s getting close to mother’s day here in the UK (here’s a list of mother’s day dates worldwide) and that set me thinking about women and the different stages... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2023 BOOKS

• Let Love Grow Food This Valentine’s Day

  

  Concern Worldwide is a charity that ‘goes to the ends of earth to deliver aid where it’s needed most’. They’re working in Turkey and Syria right now. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2023 BOOKS

• Kindness

  

  In Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book – reflections on hope, survival and the messy business of being alive – he writes: Life is short. Be kind. A beautiful thing to... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2023 BOOKS

• A Ukrainian Christmas

  

  Business Ukraine Magazine reports that Kharkiv’s main Christmas tree has, this year, been put up in an underground station – to protect it from Russian air... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2022 BOOKS

• Environmental Racism & COP27 Loss-and-Damage Discussions

  

  Environmental Racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of colour. That’s Joycelyn Longdon’s succinct definition. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2022 BOOKS

• Blue Plaques for Black People: Nubian Jak Community Trust

  

  For this Black History month, here’s an organisation which celebrates Black history throughout the year and throughout the land. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2022 BOOKS

• Redemption Song

  

  A couple of weeks ago I saw the Bob Marley musical, Get Up Stand Up! in London. It’s glorious, it’s uplifting, I felt sound waves, like a breeze, against my... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2022 BOOKS

• 1926-2022 and 1952-2022

  

  CHRIS JACKSON//GETTY IMAGES Queen Elizabeth II has died Share this:TwitterFacebookPinterestPocketEmail Related Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2022 BOOKS

• Ask Not What Trees Can Do for Us, but What We Can Do for Trees

  

  Last weekend I walked through a wood. Sunlight filtered through the leaves and made me think how medieval stonemasons must have been inspired by the branches... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2022 BOOKS

• The Good Ally by Nova Reid

  

  When Claudia Rankine, a Black poet and playwright, was asked by a white man, after a reading from Citizen: An American Lyric (Rankine’s 2014 anthology about... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2022 BOOKS

• Queenhood by Simon Armitage

  

  I’m not a monarchist nor a royalist but I am – as Helen Mirren said, recently – a Queenist. This country’s Queen, Queen Elizabeth II, is an extroarindary woman... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2022 BOOKS

• 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