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How communities of colour fought back

Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the challenges that the UK’s minoritised communities have faced over the last five years, and reports on the ways that they have come together to organise, support and uplift one another.

  • Election 2024
  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

An oral history of the Village Voice

The paper, which was the first to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness, is now immortalised in a new book by ex-staffer Tricia Romano.

  • Huck80
  • Josh Jones

The future is written

Ilana Kaplan explains how being a media journalist has become so bleak and why humans are more vital than ever to deliver the news we consume.

  • Huck80
  • Ilana Kaplan

2023 Wrapped-Up – Huck’s December Newsletter

Emma Garland’s final monthly dispatch of the year takes in the highs and lows of culture and activism in 2023: from Wonka and Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial to the loss of humanity in Gaza.

  • Culture
  • Emma Garland

Introducing Huck 80

Presenting the Power of Words issue, featuring a cast of talented artists, creators and politicians pushing beyond the boundaries and fighting for a better world.

  • Huck80
  • Huck

We’re Jews protesting Israel’s actions, here’s why

Families in Gaza should not pay the price for Hamas’s horrifying attack on Israeli civilians, say activists from Na’amod

  • Activism
  • Na’amod

How Britain became a shattered nation

In this excerpt from his new book, acclaimed academic Danny Dorling exposes a new geography of inequality and social fissures across the country.

  • Activism
  • Danny Dorling

Why can't we get anywhere?

In the latest feature from our ‘At What Cost’ series, we look at how a lack of transport infrastructure and investment is condemning millions to a life of inequality and hardship.

  • Activism
  • Diyora Shadijanova

How the housing crisis is trapping people in dangerous situations

We meet some of those forced to live in hazardous accommodation or prevented from securing safe homes for themselves and their families by the cost of living crisis.

  • At What Cost?
  • Eve Upton-Clark

People are turning to dumpster diving to survive the cost of living crisis

As the crisis continues to bite Daisy Schofield meets some of those using waste to weather the storm.

  • At What Cost?
  • Daisy Schofield

Is anyone still talking to FRANK?

Twenty years since the government's drug advice service was launched, UK narcotics laws have never been so backwards and FRANK so quiet. Is he still active?

  • Drugs
  • Kyle MacNeill

Inside the growing squatting movement fighting back against homelessness

As the cost of living crisis continues to bite, Isaac Muk meets some of those organising to support those most at risk.

  • At What Cost?
  • Isaac Muk

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