America
How government-backed, billion-dollar lotteries exploit those most in need
Big money, bigger crisis — Some call it the "stupidity tax", others a waste of time. For many poor, addicted Americans, the lottery is a matter of necessity, even while it's costing them billions of dollars each year.
Written by: Adam White
Photographer Alec Soth on the importance of being a beginner
Playing Around, Trying Stuff Out — Huck editor Andrea Kurland catches up with great American documentarian Alec Soth about his impressive, constantly changing career, during his first UK retrospective at the Science Museum, London.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
Justice activists join hands across the Atlantic to end police killings
Black Lives Matter across the pond — From Mike Brown in Ferguson to Mark Duggan in London, black lives are being lost at the hands of police. But activists in the US and UK are building a transatlantic bridge, coming together to share stories of loved ones lost in their fight for change.
Written by: Michael Segalov
Photographer uses Google Street View to document fatal shootings on Instagram
#gunviolence #everydayUSA — Photographer Michael Zbieranowski’s Someplace Else project breaks into Instagram feeds to remind us just how commonplace and everyday shootings in the US have become.
Written by: Alex King
Into the Quiet Zone: An American county living entirely off the grid
Radio silence — Could you live without your iPhone? Without Instagramming your every move? Photographer Emile Holba makes a pilgrimage to Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where life inside the National Radio Quiet Zone is interference-free.
Written by: Emile Holba
Follow these photographers on Instagram for another perspective on rural America
Beyond Appalachia — Photographer Roger May's crowdsourced Looking at Appalachia project reveals another perspective on a misunderstood region of the US. Here he selects his five favourite Instagrammers.
Written by: Alex King
Huck’s top 10 alternative high school movies
These ain’t no gym class heroes — Featuring indoctrination, alienation and The Ramones, this is our list of the best alternative coming-of-age flicks.
Written by: Alex King
Sinkane's musical movements across the globe
A musical map — Sinkane has soaked up influences from everywhere he's called home, from Sudan to London to the States. See his inspirations mapped out in our globetrotting playlist.
Written by: Alex Taylor
Another Home: Life Beyond The Border
Huck Across America Pt 2: Louisiana — Huck enters the lives of young people from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to find out what kind of American Dream they found once they crossed the border into the States.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Behind the scenes of the secret world of children's beauty pageants
Darling Divas — Children's beauty pageants are a particular kind of spectacle, and something of a muse for photographer Colby Katz.
Written by: Colby Katz
