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 ...

Gone are the days when good and great poems were taught, sought after, and appreciated. Could it be that this interest has been taken over instead by TV series binging or downright movie streaming? “I ...

Outraged students have painted over a poem by the ‘racist’ Victorian writer Rudyard Kipling and replaced it with a work from Maya Angelou. Undergraduates at the University of Manchester painted over a ...

As part of the BBC's summer of women's sport, spoken word artist Deanna Rodger has written a special version of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem, If. Rodger reimagines and appropriates the inspirational ...

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 ...

They replaced the wall mural with 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou saying Kipling stood for the 'opposite of liberation, empowerment and human rights' STUDENTS painted over Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If' ...

"You'll be a woman - who's won" - Kipling's If poem re-imagined As part of the BBC's summer of women's sport, spoken word artist Deanna Rodger has written a special ...