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Snowy: The MC leading Nottingham grime’s conquest of the UK

Notts is wild — Nottingham’s hardest working MC is helping to build the foundations for a new generation of grime artists dragging the spotlight away from London.

  • Music
  • Alex King

What makes Al Qaeda suicide bombers tick?

Humanising the enemy — Director Paul Refsdal lived alongside Jhabat al-Nusra’s ‘martyrdom seekers’ in Syria to understand what motivates them in his hard-hitting documentary Dugma: The Button.

  • Film
  • Alex King

The alternative parties keeping old working class venues alive

Partying to survive — London’s declining traditional venues are surviving by providing a home for threatened alternative nightlife, from live music to LGBTQ parties.

  • Alex King
  • Alex King

Utah & Ether: The Bonnie and Clyde of graffiti

The outlaw artists — This couple broke probation to go on a worldwide tagging spree. But living on the run, chased from country to country, has taught them the true meaning of independence.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

The lost street gangs of NYC’s Lower East Side

Unseen America — The uniformed street gangs who inspired cult classic The Warriors were violent pillars of community identity, before being swept away by gentrification and the commercialisation of the drug trade.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Secret Garden Party is the first UK festival to introduce official drug testing service

What’s in your baggy? — Secret Garden Party festival offered festivalgoers the opportunity to have their drugs tested to help avoid overdoses and poisonings.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

Shabaka Hutchings on Africa’s eternal cultural influence

Following the bloodlines — Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming frontman Shabaka Hutchings explains how a new generation of artists are rediscovering and reinterpreting Africa’s immense musical, artistic and stylistic heritage.

  • Music
  • Alex King

The artist peering into the darkest corners of the War on Terror

From suburbia to Guantanamo — Artist Edmund Clark’s ‘War of Terror’ exhibition reveals the true face of the West's secret battle against terrorism: state censorship, control, torture, extra-judicial detention and Extraordinary Rendition.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Six decades of conflict in Gaza explained in just 20 minutes

Putting Gaza in context — A short documentary unpicks the deep roots of the Gaza conflict, a human-made disaster driven by the state of Israel’s violent settler-colonial project in Palestine.

  • Film
  • Alex King

The photographer capturing youth in defiance

We keep on living free — Italian photographer Giacomo Cosua’s show ‘I’m Not Afraid’ documents youth determined to express themselves - no matter what - around the globe.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

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