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Inside the UK’s very own Little Korea

Home Away From Home — In a quiet suburb outside of London resides Europe’s largest Korean expatriate population. Among this tight-knit community are a significant number of DPRK defectors, who are forging a new life for themselves in a place they now call home.

  • Culture
  • Je Seung Lee

The digital archive celebrating Black Britain beyond London

Bumpkin files — The experience of Black Britons living outside of the capital is all too often overlooked, but an Instagram account documenting diaspora communities living across the UK is looking to change this.

  • Culture
  • Vuyokazi Mtukela

The photographer capturing Black life in Ghana & Britain

The Roadmaker — A new book and exhibition aims to shed light on the archive of James Barnor – an artist who created a vital document of Ghanian Independence and London’s swinging ‘60s, but whose name has remained relatively forgotten until recently.

  • Culture
  • Huck

Inside the slick, stylish world of black dandyism

Meet the dandy lions — In her latest book, curator Shantrelle P. Lewis meets modern-day black dandies – men who explore their diasporic identity through colourful, patterned suits, using their impeccable style to expand the conversation on gender, race, sexuality, masculinity and class.

  • Photography
  • Biju Belinky

The young filmmakers showing a personal side of immigration

The Shortest Nights — In Tough, Journey of a Stateless Man and Calling Home, promising young filmmakers show three different sides of immigration – ranging from a mother-daughter conversation to the experience of being stripped of your identity.

  • Film
  • Biju Belinky

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