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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...