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The Black ballet dancers taking on industry racism

Beyond The Screen in Lockdown — From raves for the deaf to Black ballet dancers and ‘outcast’ amateur wrestlers, now more than ever, communities are coming together online to keep their real-life connections alive.

  • Huck Docs
  • Huck

The hotel business pivoting to supply 15 million with PPE

Pandemic Innovators — For the past 10 years, Laurence Nair-Price has run a business dealing in hotel furnishings. But after witnessing the government's calamitous failings around COVID-19, the entrepreneur decided to take matters into his own hands, reinventing his company to supply millions with PPE.

  • Reportage
  • Huck

How lockdown reignited our love of indie bookshops

Disappearing City — Over the past few years, independent book stores have made a resurgence, defying corporate behemoths like Amazon. But with lockdown complicating in-person sales, these community hubs face new challenges.

  • Culture
  • Jessica Furseth

Virtual healing: the shamanic answer to coronavirus

Holistic healthcare — Scotland's shamanic community claims that human mistreatment of the planet caused the pandemic, and some say they have the power to heal the virus.

  • Reportage
  • Sam Bradpiece

For London's drag queens, the show must go on

Pandemic Innovators — Drag queen 'Sue Gives A Fuk' was regularly gigging around London, until the pandemic left live venues to face a precarious future. Since then, Sue's been forced to get creative to sustain her career.

  • Culture
  • Huck

Capturing the everyday reality of lockdown in Soweto

Township blues — South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal countries - and the inequalities have only grown starker during Covid-19. In 'the everyday waiting' photographer Jabulani Dhlamini sheds light on the situation in one of the country’s poorest neighbourhoods.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

The poet helping the next generation shape the future

Life after Lockdown — In a new film, the first young people’s laureate for London Caleb Femi has teamed up with NCS to help spell out exactly what the next generation needs from life after lockdown.

  • Film
  • Ben Smoke

Akwaeke Emezi on death, magic and life as an outsider

‘My community is real and valid’ — We speak to the trailblazing author behind one of the most anticipated books of the year, The Death of Vivek Oji.

  • Books
  • Kate Wyver

Huck 73: The Sanctuary Issue

Out now! — We were ready to release our new issue back in March. Then the world fell off a cliff. Five months later, we have a magazine that exists freely between Then and Now: a collection of stories about hope and resilience, at a time when we need them more than ever.

  • Culture
  • Huck

Old skate videos are getting me through the pandemic

Saved by nostalgia — Nostalgia is a powerful balm for difficult times – and replaying the past is the one thing lifting my spirits amidst our current reality.

  • Skate
  • Jonathan Smith

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