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What it's like to tour Brexit Britain as a non-white musician

Battling anxiety in the face of ignorance — After being racially abused in the street, Vanessa Govinden had a frightening realisation: her band Little Fists was about to tour post-Brexit UK for the first time, exposing to her a nation fraught with rising xenophobia. This is the story of how she overcame the panic.

  • Music
  • Vanessa Govinden

The two young artists taking on the pale, male and stale London scene

Challenging the mainstream — London-based art collective The White Pube are taking on the sexist, whitewashed London art world, one DIY project at a time.

  • Art
  • Emily Casey

Young Mexican-Americans talk Trump, the wall, and uncertain futures

Life on the border — Donald Trump is leading the Republican Party charge to the White House. Just yesterday he visited Mexico City, reaffirming his vow to build a wall along their shared border, paid for, his insists, by Mexico. The rhetoric might grab headlines, but how do young Mexican-Americans living on the border feel about the world they know changing? Photojournalist and professor Adriana Yvette Monsalve asked her students to find out.

  • Activism
  • Adriana Yvette Monsalve

The poet and the photographer who discovered Brexit Britain in 2006

Destroying the Laboratory — Magnum photographer Mark Power collaborated with poet Daniel Cockrill to document the rise in English nationalism in between 2006 and 2010. With hindsight, the project appears like an eerie map of Brexit Britain.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

Five years after Mark Duggan’s death, the anger that sparked the London riots is still burning

The fight for justice continues — The police killing of Mark Duggan sparked the worst riots in modern British history. George Amponsah’s documentary The Hard Stop argues that lessons still haven’t been learned.

  • Film
  • Alex King

Rock, racism and rebel music: 1970s Britain through a photographer's lens

Punk not prejudice — In the 1970s racism was rife in the UK, prejudice permeated the fabric of many British towns and cities. But groups like Rock Against Racism fought back; organising protests, gigs and celebrations to pull communities together, putting themselves in serious danger in the process.

  • Photography
  • Max Gayler

“We’re not leaving the UK, this is our home”

An afternoon in a Polish deli — Amid a spike in post-Brexit attacks on minorities across the UK, we went to a Polish deli and witnessed Polish people’s defiant reaction to racist intimidation aimed at forcing them out.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

10 ways Brexit could affect young people

Surviving a sinking UK — Britain’s split with the EU won’t be pretty. Huck gets to the bottom of the propaganda, myths and the deluge of questions nobody can answer yet, to look at how Brexit will affect you.

  • Activism
  • Alex King, Andrea Kurland and Max Gayler

Brexit Britain: You've been played

The roots of racist resentment — As the UK votes to leave the European Union, the population is left to face a hard truth. This campaign was fuelled by a resentful white nationalism - the roots of which run deep. But what happens when the manipulated masses don't "get back" the country they were promised all along?

  • Culture
  • Gavan Titley

Into the fires of Hell: Author Ryan Gattis on the LA riots, tattoos and the Lynwood Vikings

The Spiel Sesh: No. 4 — Novelist Ryan Gattis, who penned the LA Riots odyssey All Involved, answers our quick-fire Q&A series, the The Spiel Sesh.

  • Print
  • Zach Sebastian (interview)

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