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6 February 2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy - A Review
An 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 2020
Joe Biden's victory deserves celebration, but how democratic is democracy in the UK & USA?
After 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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30 August 2020
The Society of Spectacle: Kanye West and Politics in 2020
Great beats, shame about the rest...
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30 August 2018
BlacKkKlansman
Spike 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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9 May 2017
Hexham Book Festival: Gary Younge
Gary 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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23 April 2017
Cambridge Literary Festival: USA 100 Days On
A 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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10 November 2016
The Fate of Trump's Presidency
Donald 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?