Reni Eddo-Lodge on how to eliminate Systemic Racism

Published: June 16, 2020, 5:18 p.m.

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Reni Eddo-Lodge, is a London based, award winning author and journalist. Her writing focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. She\'s the author of the Jhalak Prize winning, bestselling\\xa0Why I\\u2019m No Longer Talking to White People About Race,\\xa0published by Bloomsbury, and host of a podcast series called\\xa0About Race.

Why I\'m no Longer Talking topped a public poll of twenty books shortlisted in 2018 by the\\xa0UK Booksellers Association\\xa0as the most influential book written by a woman

We met at the Blue Met Literary Festival in Montreal (she was here to accept the Words to Change Prize, awarded to "the writer of a literary work that upholds the values of intercultural understanding and social inclusion", to talk about her book, about white people talking about racism, and about the prevalence and effects of systematic, structural racism in England and around the world.\\xa0

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