STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

University of Manchester students took matters into their own hands and painted over a mural of a 1895 poem by Rudyard Kipling because they deemed him as racist, reports The Guardian. The poem titled, ...

Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" are regularly ...

Fatima Abid was among elected student leaders who chose to replace Rudyard Kipling's work with a Maya Angelou poem Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling's If in a stand against his ...

Searching through Kipling family papers, the archive of a former head of the cruise-ship company Cunard Line, and inside a house in Manhattan, Pomona College professor emeritus Thomas Pinney found ...

Angry students have painted over 'the nation's favourite poem' because they believe its author Rudyard Kipling was a racist. The much-loved 1895 work 'If' - which has repeatedly been voted the UK's ...

Students at Manchester University scrubbed a poem by Rudyard Kipling off a wall, claiming that the poet was a “racist.” Mr Kipling’s poem 'If' which had been painted on the wall of the students’ union ...

RADIO HOST Nick Ferrari has delivered a scathing rebuke of the student activists at Manchester University who painted over a Rudyard Kipling poem after criticising it as "racist and imperialistic".

The author's 1895 poem was painted on a wall of Manchester University's newly renovated union building. But student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by Maya Angelou in a bid to ...