Disunited States
Disunited States: Lessons learnt in a divided America
Taking on Trump — After a week on the ground in Atlanta, trying to work out how 2016's election ended with Trump as President-elect, Huck's News Editor Michael Segalov heads back to the United Kingdom. Here's what we've learnt: there's no easy answer.
Written by: Michael Segalov
The Drag Queens of Atlanta are staying fabulous in the face of fear
Disunited States: Here & Queer — Donald Trump is hardly a cheerleader for LGBT rights, and Vice-President elect Mike Pence is a fan of gay conversion therapy. Backstage at one of Atlanta's queer bars, we meet some local queens to find out how they're feeling.
Written by: Michael Segalov
A young voter explains why Trump won his community's support
Disunited States: No choice — Heading out into rural Georgia to meet Trump supporters was always going to be an uncomfortable task. When Huck got Kicked out of a local gun show, a young military guy named Will grabs us and asks to talk. Here's what he had to say.
Written by: Will as told to Michael Segalov
We went to a gun show to talk to Trump's supporters
Disunited States: Into Trumpland — In rural America, voters turned out to support Donald Trump in their hoards. We head to the small town of Perry, which is hosting a gun show, to hear voters' thoughts.
Written by: Michael Segalov
These Syrian refugees believe America will rise above Trump’s racism
“America offers us a future” — There's much to fear in Trump's America, and for nobody is this truer than Muslim refugees. In the small town of Clarkston, Georgia, live the Dallou family, who arrived here seeking refuge from violence in Syria. They remain positive about the future.
Written by: Michael Segalov
An uncomfortable conversation with a young black Republican
Disunited States: Difficult truths — It's not surprising, really, that very few black people in this election voted Trump, even less so in an urban metropolis like Atlanta. In our latest dispatch from the city, we meet Donnie Pulliam, a young black Republican at Morehouse College. It makes for a difficult conversation.
Written by: Michael Segalov
The Atlanta skate park that fought back against gentrification - and won
Disunited States: Black Blocks — Built in 1996 in time for Atlanta to host the Olympic Games, Black Blocks was a small urban square designed to spruce up the highway, but it quickly became an important spot for Atlanta’s skaters. Gentrification is in full swing in the city, and when the authorities tried to shut it down earlier this year, the community rallied together to save it, explains Andrew Murrell.
Written by: Andrew Murrell
Not My President: Anti-Trump protests shut down Atlanta
'Fuck Trump' — While Trump is busy preparing to make America great again, divisions in the nation are growing. Across the country protests are swelling, people determined to fight back. We hit the ground for Atlanta's latest anti-Trump action.
Written by: Michael Segalov
On the frontlines of Atlanta's homelessness crisis
America’s guilty little secret — Like every American city, homelessness in Atlanta is all too commonplace. The economic downturn hit this city hard, and gentrification finds no space for those who are desperate.
Written by: Michael Segalov
America could learn a lot from the skaters of Atlanta
Lessons from the Fourth Ward Skate Park — As Trump comes to power on a divisive wave of prejudice, the skate community of Atlanta is holding tight and keeping their own utopia alive. In this chapter of Disunited States, a series of dispatches from Georgia, Huck escapes to the Fourth Ward Skate Park and finds a community that refuses to build boundaries.
Written by: Michael Segalov
Searching for answers in Trumpland USA
Disunited States: Into a red sea — When news broke that Donald Trump would really be taking up office in the White House, we sat shocked, angry and bemused at what to do. Now Huck’s News Editor Michael Segalov is heading Stateside to Georgia to hear stories from voices on the ground. In his first dispatch from the US, he explains where we’re going, who we'll be talking to, and how we'll be trying to make sense of America's future.
Written by: Michael Segalov