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The Racism that Killed George Floyd Was Built in Britain
The GuardianThis is not just ‘horrible stuff that happens in America’. Black people know we need to dismantle the same system in the UK.
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Esi Edugyan, the best-selling author of Washington Black and Half-Blood Blues, curates a collection of articles by Black women writers, about everything from the nature of empathy to exploring the Black experience within history and in the present moment—showing some of the many different ways we could be in the world.
Image by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.
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Black Communities Need Support, Not a Coronavirus Police State
ViceBlack lives are being sacrificed in the name of (white) public health, whether through disproportionate exposure to COVID-19 or policing of the people least able to stay home.
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Black Canadians Are Suffocating Under a Racist Policing System, Too
The Washington PostIf Americans think of Canada as the not-so-racist neighbor to the north, that might be because that is the myth white people in Canada like to tell themselves.
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The Banality of Empathy
The New York Review of BooksIf witnessing suffering firsthand doesn’t necessarily spark good deeds, why do we think art about suffering will?
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Tired of Talking About Diversity
Publishers WeeklyRoxane Gay calls on booksellers to stop simply talking about diversity and to step up their role in providing sanctuary, delivered as the keynote to the Publishers Weekly Winter Institute in 2017.
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America Wasn’t a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One
The New York TimesOur democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.
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Esi Edugyan
Esi Edugyan is the author of multiple novels, including Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and the best-selling Washington Black, named as one of 2018’s best books of the year by The New York Times. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.