The incredible true story of Brixton Academy will be brought to the stage this summer at Southwark Playhouse Borough.

When award-winning author Alex Wheatle was sentenced to nine months in prison at the age of 18, he thought his life was over. How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to ...

Earlier this month the writer Alex Wheatle died. Known as “the Brixton Bard”, Wheatle began writing after serving a prison sentence following the Brixton riots in 1981. His time inside turned ...

As a teenager, he was convicted of assaulting a police officer during the Brixton Riots. He felt totally alone and without hope. But as the door slammed on Alex’s prison cell, he met a book ...

At a debate at the Oxford Literary Festival, Lord Sewell reportedly said the disorder that followed the Southport attack stemmed from 'a combination of two people: Guardian editors and criminal ...

I interviewed Steve McQueen for The Guardian ahead of the premiere of Mangrove, one of the five films that made up Small Axe, ...

Their stunning debut single, ‘White Riot’, acted both as a protest against the complacency of the oppressed masses in the United Kingdom and as a sonic manifesto for the band itself. In 1977, a few ...

Michael Groce was 18 when the Brixton Riots broke out. He would later retell the tale of the violence in his poem, Bottles and Bombs, Guns and Bricks. Michael Groce was 18 when the Brixton Riots broke ...

Riots in London over the weekend have left Christians greatly concerned for the future of their communities. Violence broke out first in Tottenham, then Enfield, Walthamstow and Brixton last night, ...

But England was not the country I had left in 1966. In the 1970s things started going downhill, culminating in the Brixton and Toxteth riots in the 1980s, sparked by racism and inequality. We were ...