How black Arsenal changed football
For fans and players, the north London club has come to offer a sense of belonging.
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Tomiwa Owolade
Tomiwa Owolade is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of the forthcoming book This is Not America.
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Against race essentialism
Black identity is a reality, not an idea.
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The writer at the centre of the Diane Abbott row
Tomiwa Owolade joins the New Statesman Podcast team to discuss the MP’s incendiary response to his piece.
What Diane Abbott gets wrong about racism
The Labour MP’s response to my column showed a stunning lack of judgement and awareness.
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Is the future of Christianity African?
How immigration is revitalising British churches.
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Nigel Biggar’s whitewashing of empire
The historian is right that Britain’s colonial legacy is morally complex. So why is his defence of it so…
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America’s oldest shame is violence, not racism
Ideology alone does not explain police killings in the United States.
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The narcissism of anti-racist therapy
Race experts are pushing flimsy solutions to real problems.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a…
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