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Reni Eddo-Lodge
History & Commentary
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist and author whose writing examines feminism, structural racism and the experiences of people of colour in Britain.
Biography
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist and author born on 25 September 1989. Her writing focuses primarily on feminism and structural racism. She has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Voice, Vice and i-D, and to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.
Her 2017 book, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, grew out of a 2014 blog post expressing frustration with discussions of racism in Britain being led by people unaffected by it. In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests, the book topped the UK non-fiction paperback chart. On 16 June 2020, Eddo-Lodge became the first black British woman to reach No. 1 overall in the British book charts.
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Books by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race examines what it means to be a person of colour in Britain, exploring erased black history and the links between class and race. It developed from Eddo-Lodge's 2014 blog post about who leads discussions of race and racism in Britain.