While the seaside town has undergone regeneration in the past decade, unemployment is soaring and 35% of its 16-year-olds are living in poverty. Here, we speak to the young people that call Margate home.
In a personal essay, the poet, writer and activist weighs in on the detrimental effects scrapping free travel can have for under-18 Londoners.
Political science grad and “Midwestern Marxist” @eddieligersmith uses facts to explain politics to his rapt TikTok audience.
In the run up to the most important election in recent memory, we unpack questions about court packing, abortion laws and what might happen if Trump loses and refuses to leave the White House.
Yesterday, protestors gathered in London and Abjua, Nigeria, including Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido, to call for the abolishment of SARS – a corrupt unit of the Nigerian police force. Here's what went down in the capital.
Thatcher and May’s fanfic Song of Iron and Wheat. “Mandelborne”. A whipped cream fight with Ed Balls (oo-er). How Westminster fantasy horniness rose to the occasion... then flopped.
In November’s US presidential election it won’t be the spotlight-grabbing cities of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles that decide the country’s fate, but “swing states” such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin. Chris Erik Thomas takes a look at which way they’re likely to lean in 2020.
Historian and local Richard Yeboah took lockdown by the horns to pursue his passion project. The Regeneration of Hackney: Transforming Modern Utopias is a detailed examination of gentrification in one of London’s most populated areas.
Twenty-twenty has been challenging for everyone, not least for people from the African and Caribbean diasporas. Here, Rainbow Milk author Paul Mendez joins the monthly birdwatching club aiming to show that nature is for everyone.
Following a 90 day will-it, won’t-it speculation over Trump’s US TikTok ban, a rival app has welcomed an exodus of disenfranchised, renegade-dancing TikTokers. But how will this impact Triller’s hip-hop DNA that has traditionally elevated its Black creators?
Bikes and scooters trumped cars as the most popular form of transport during lockdown this summer. Capturing the trend, photographer Jermaine Francis heads to the streets of London.
After the death of George Floyd and the violent suppression of Black Lives Matter protests forces across the US have come under heavy scrutiny. Andrea Domanick looks at the growing demands to demilitarise and defund them.
THE FACE cover star has teamed up with the fast food chain on an exclusive $6 meal and a line of merch including, but not limited to, a $90 chicken nugget pillow.
We hear from the people on the ground standing against the severe under-representation of Black/POC artists and faces in the UK’s long standing art institutions.
The environmental protest group reboots this week with a new round of actions. But in a time of Covid-19, looming recession, mass unemployment, deteriorating mental health and racial trauma, is it enough to recapture our attention?
We speak to Filthbusters, the radical zine and collective offering viable alternative solutions in London.
From James Jebbia, founder of Supreme, to Cactus Plant Flea Market founder Cynthia Lu, we take a look at the power players utilising anonymity in a world in which shouting the loudest is often the best way to get heard.
Banknotes of Colour have successfully campaigned for legal tender to be more representative, showcasing Britain’s rich and diverse histories. One small step for man, one giant leap towards a more united country?
We speak to the rising tide of trans US politicians winning public office: Colorado’s Brianna Titone, Rosemary Ketchum, West Virginia’s first openly trans lawmaker, and Andrea Jenkins, founder of Trans United Fund and the first trans Black woman to be elected to office.
Are you neither Gen Z nor millennial? If you’re “too young to talk about adulting and avocado toast, too old to make a TikTok account” you might just be a zillennial. Eve Upton-Clark demystifies the micro-generation.
Here are seven London-based hair stylists who will grant all your hair-raising dreams, no questions asked.
The co-founder of Minnesota-based non-profit Black Visions Collective tells us about fighting for Black liberation and the trans individuals leading the movement.
One of the cultural hubs of Minneapolis is rebuilding after the riots, but some fear that outside investment will accelerate the neighbourhood’s descent into gentrification.
