Gary Younge is an author, braoadcaster, Type Media Fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. His most recent book is Another Day in the Death of America.
Photograph © Jonas Mortensen
‘As the economy declined African Americans became a larger part of a shrinking and impoverished city.’
Gary Younge introduces the photography of Cian Oba-Smith.
‘In 1988 my mother took the bus to Stevenage town centre to do the weekly shop, came home and died in her sleep.’
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