Alex King
Awate: The North London rapper fighting for racial justice
Music video premiere — Awate premieres 'Uncontrollable Dopeness' on Huck and talks about confronting racism on the streets and his family’s freedom fighting heritage.
Written by: Alex King
Documenting London squatting culture from the inside
Memories of a fading way of life — Polish artist Pawel Dziemian made a personal visual record of London’s squatting scene while he lived in a series of occupied houses around the capital.
Written by: Alex King
The world’s best photojournalists share their most compassionate images
Conditions of the heart — Magnum photographers reflect on the enormous role empathy and human connection play in their work, including Jim Goldberg, Diana Markosian and Newsha Tavakolian.
Written by: Alex King
Guru Jimmy brings peace and understanding back to the US presidential election
Can’t we all just get along? — Artist James Ostrer’s alter ego Guru Jimmy attempts to heal America’s political divide in a series of hilarious and profound Uber chats.
Written by: Alex King
Óscar Martinez: the journalist investigating the world’s most ferocious gang war
A History of Violence — Journalist Óscar Martinez is creating political earthquakes with his up close and personal investigations into the street gangs of El Salvador - the most violent country in the world outside an official war zone.
Written by: Alex King
The rappers who took down an African 'dictator'
The Revolution Won't be Televised — Filmmaker Rama Thiaw documented how rappers Thiat and Kilifeu led Senegal’s Y’en a Marre youth resistance movement to topple despised president Abdoulaye Wade.
Written by: Alex King
For us, by us: Why volunteering abroad must be led by local youth
Huck x Restless Development — Young people around the world don’t need Madonna or empty promises from politicians - they can fix their own problems when local and international youth work together.
Written by: Alex King
The cycle of life and death in the Romanian countryside
A search for life without death — Using a Romanian folk tale to guide her, photographer Laura Pannack set off into the countryside to investigate questions on time and mortality.
Written by: Alex King
The white photographer who documented the rise and fall of the Black Panthers
Power to the People — Over seven years, photographer Stephen Shames created the definitive visual record of the Black Panther Party, from their political organising to free food programmes.
Written by: Alex King
The greatest struggles and subcultures of the 1960s
Breaking with the old way — Danny Lyon pioneered a new form of photojournalism in the 1960s, getting deep with his subjects and seeing the world through their eyes: in prisons, biker gangs and in the Civil Rights Movement.
Written by: Alex King