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Youthful joy & end-of-era poignancy at a London school prom

Leavers — For several years, Lewis Khan documented young people as they celebrated the last of their school days and the completion of their exams. The series is now collated in a new self-published photobook and short film.

  • Culture
  • Zoe Whitfield

On Marrakech’s outskirts, a skatepark reimagines possibility for local youth

Tameslouht — Built on the grounds of the Fiers et Forts orphanage, a new spot is providing space for connection and purpose, while incubating top-class talent. Ellie Howard reports from its banks.

  • Sport
  • Ellie Howard
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“Why ask mum? Mum doesn’t have a six pack”: Sky Yang on teen Google entanglement

Dear Google — The ESEA filmmaker’s latest piece explores coming-of-age in the information era, along with the added tension of racial dynamics in a predominantly white world. Here, he explains how and why he made it. 

  • Culture
  • Sky Yang
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Youth violence’s rise is deeply concerning, but mass hysteria doesn’t help

Safe — On Knife Crime Awareness Week, writer, podcaster and youth worker Ciaran Thapar reflects on the presence of violent content online, growing awareness about the need for action, and the two decades since Saul Dibb’s Bullet Boy.

  • Activism
  • Ciaran Thapar

Jordan Stephens gets tattoo inked in support of UK grassroots youth music

Rescue the Roots — It’s designed by his partner Mix’s Jade Thirlwall, and comes as part of Youth Music’s Rescue The Roots campaign, with the charity hoping to raise £1 million for young creatives and youth initiatives.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

“A party is a microcosm of a nation”: Caleb Femi on the decline of the house party

To celebrate the publication of his new collection of poems, ‘The Wickedest’, Isaac Muk caught up with Femi to talk more about the work, the future of the shoobs, and discuss why having it large on a Saturday night should be cherished.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Derek Ridgers’ seminal street portraits of 80s London youth

A new book brings together a collection of the photographers never-before-seen photographs of punks, skinheads, New Romantics, goths, ravers, and fetishists at the height of Thatcherite Britain.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

I interrupted Keir Starmer’s manifesto launch – here’s why

One of Starmer’s constituents, Alice tried every way to talk to her then MP about the crisis facing her generation, but he did not listen she writes exclusively for Huck.

  • Election 2024
  • Alice, Green New Deal Rising

Our message to politicians in 2024: ignore young voters at your peril

With Gen Z and Millennials making up the largest percentage of UK population in 2024, Co-Director of Green New Deal Rising Fatima Ibrahim writes that the organisation is putting politicians on notice.

  • Activism
  • Fatima Ibrahim

A raw journey into America’s rebellious youth culture

Wesley Knoll’s newly published photobook ‘Fading Smile’ is an unflinching window into life as a young person in the USA.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

An idyllic portrait of pre-gentrification Brooklyn

Word on the street — Photographer Larry Racioppo remembers shooting Myrtle Avenue and Clinton Hill in 1979, providing a revealing glimpse into how the interwoven communities have changed since then.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The horse club offering a haven for young Londoners

Riding high — In one of the most disadvantaged inner-city neighbourhoods in the country, a community project is working to transform the lives of young people – using horses.

  • Reportage
  • Eva Clifford

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