Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 146 )

• 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

• 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