Yvonne Singh
@yvonnesingh.bsky.social
Editor, Journalist, Writer. Lecturer at City Lit, London and Canterbury Christchurch. Judge 2020 @SI Leeds
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"Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today"
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today
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October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today"
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
When will they realise that such divisive rhetoric is destructive...
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
When will they realise that such divisive rhetoric is destructive...
Or kids are chased by racist thugs out of a park for no other reason that their skin is melanated ...
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Or kids are chased by racist thugs out of a park for no other reason that their skin is melanated ...
In areas of high racial tension, where a children's refugee centre has been targeted by the far right, say, an elderly man has to phone his care worker, and tell said person not to come to his estate as he is worried about his safety...
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In areas of high racial tension, where a children's refugee centre has been targeted by the far right, say, an elderly man has to phone his care worker, and tell said person not to come to his estate as he is worried about his safety...