Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster born in 1989 in London. She began her career as a journalist and became widely known after a 2014 blog post, 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race', went viral. This post formed the basis of her book of the same name. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (2017, Bloomsbury) is a landmark work of British political writing that examines structural racism in the UK through history, feminism, and personal testimony. It won the Jhalak Prize in 2018, the Books Are My Bag Readers Award, and several other prizes, and remained on bestseller lists for years following the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. The book has become a standard text in discussions of anti-racism in Britain. Eddo-Lodge has worked for publications including The Guardian, The Times, and Vice, and has presented radio and television programmes on race and culture. She has been vocal about the structural barriers facing Black writers in British publishing and media.