Sasha Mistlin

The politics of resentment are attractive to a generation that has known so much precarity, says Guardian Saturday commissioning editor Sasha Mistlin

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Bursting onto the global scene at 16 as part of hip hop collective Odd Future, Thebe Neruda Kgositsile courted admiration and controversy with a combustible persona. 10 years later, he talks about growing up, depression, and fatherhood

With his face tattoos, substance issues and jail time, the Euphoria star has been marketed as the opposite to boyband blandness. But with the reception to his music muted so far, he realises staying sober will be key

My cousin was drawn in by the social media star’s mix of motivational messages and toxic sexism, says Sasha Mistlin, a commissioning editor on Guardian Saturday

As a child he knew both love and violence; as an adult, both recognition and rejection. The writer talks about his marijuana-dealer father, his clashes at the BBC and the police stop-and-searches that drove him out of London

The Blk Art Group – whose once-shunned work is now coveted by galleries – were radical young artists who tackled shootings, racism and uprisings in the 1980s. So where are they now?

The photographers who shot the most striking images of the year – capturing everything from the terrifying power of nature to the human cost of war and Covid – recall how they were taken and what they tell us

He set up Operation Black Vote in 1996, vastly increasing the number of Black MPs - and later this year becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college

In 30 years as an activist, he has fought to stop black gay men being forgotten, broken taboos about homosexuality and campaigned to make life-changing PrEP medication available on the NHS

For Labour politicians including Diane Abbott and Paul Boateng, the unrest meant black Britain could no longer be ignored

After a childhood scarred by abuse and racism, she revolutionised the treatment of sickle cell disease and – inspired by Mary Seacole – fought inequality in nursing