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Blog
18 July 2022The American Dream is not for people of colour
View BlogThe USA’s vision of total self-achievement and self-actualisation is not only overly idealistic but also intended for just a small portion of the population.
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Blog
21 March 2022American Song Contest 2022: Eurovision’s visionary format goes transatlantic
View BlogSure America, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look like you've copied and pasted.
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News
1 March 2021TikTok agrees $92 million settlement in facial recognition lawsuit
View NewsTikTok has agreed to pay out $92 million (£66 million) to settle a lawsuit that asserts the app misused artificial intelligence to track and store users’ data.
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Review
6 February 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy - A Review
View ReviewAn unflinching depiction of the crack cocaine boom of the 1980s and 1990s in the USA, Stanley Nelson's Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy tackles and sheds light on a multitude of different topics and issues surrounding the eponymous drug.
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13 November 2020Joe Biden's victory deserves celebration, but how democratic is democracy in the UK & USA?
View BlogAfter days of waiting the 2020 American election winner was finally announced, but its results were immediately undermined by outgoing POTUS Donald Trump. Based on false accusations, Trump’s accusations revealed holes within American democracy
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Photo Blog
30 August 2020The Society of Spectacle: Kanye West and Politics in 2020
View Photo BlogGreat beats, shame about the rest...
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Review
30 August 2018BlacKkKlansman
View ReviewSpike Lee’s newest joint masterfully tells a decades-old tale of fighting white nationalism - a tale that’s all too relevant today.
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Blog
9 May 2017Hexham Book Festival: Gary Younge
View BlogGary Younge presents a moving exploration of the lives and deaths of 10 young people who were killed by guns on one day in the US.
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Review
23 April 2017Cambridge Literary Festival: USA 100 Days On
View ReviewA panel of writers and academics look at the first 100 hundred days of the Trump presidency and why this had been so important.
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Blog
10 November 2016The Fate of Trump's Presidency
View BlogDonald Trump, with 58 more electoral votes than Hillary Clinton, is now set to be what he calls "a president for all Americans". It makes us wonder what happens now that Trump has been victorious?
