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 ...

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 ...

Here are three of our favorite poems from the new cache. Plus, listen to acclaimed historian and Kipling devotee Andrew Roberts read the new poems aloud.

But it appears that Rudyard Kipling has fallen out of favour with today’s generation of students, after it emerged that his “If” poem has been scrubbed off a building by university students ...

Students at the University of Manchester painted over a poem by Rudyard Kipling because of what they describe as the British author’s imperialistic and racist writings, replacing it with a poem by the ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most ...