Alan Dent argues that the Beatles' success shows how pop culture entrenches inequality in capitalist societies It’s widely accepted that the Beatles are one of the most successful international pop bands, if not the most successful. It ought to be possible, by studying the phenomenon they were, to grasp the…

As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O'Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes' political poetry “I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street,” recalled Langston Hughes of his first literary forays: songs…