Publisher accused of `ripping off` best-selling book on racism
(The Guardian Books News)

Ben Lindsay´s We Need To Talk About Race has similar cover and title to prizewinning book by Reni Eddo-LodgeThe publisher of a new book about racism in the UK has been accused of `ripping off` Reni Eddo-Lodge´s best-selling polemic Why I´m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, after announcing a book with a strikingly similar cover design and title.Ben Lindsay - the author of We Need To Talk About Race - which focuses on race and the church - and his publisher SPCK launched the book online on Thursday.I´m sure that Ben Lindsay´s book makes a lot of relevant points about racism in the church, but the cover art and concept are both heavily influenced by Reni Eddo-Lodge. This public conversation about race must deal with why Black women´s work is so often uncredited and copied. pic.twitter.com/PFQ9aq4ZJP Related: The BBC ripped off my Slay in Your Lane slogan - now I´m being attacked | Yomi Adegoke Continue reading...