The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson, Selma) as head of a Winchester University residence starts a culture war that ignites the campus. While Sam uses her notoriety as host of the provocative radio show 'Dear White People', Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams, The Walking Dead), an Afro-sporting sci-fi geek, is recruited by an all-white student newspaper to go undercover and write about black culture—a subject he knows little about—while Coco Conners (Teyonah Parris, Mad Men) tries to use the growing controversy to carve out a career in reality TV. But no one at Winchester University is prepared for the student newspaper's outrageous, ill-conceived annual Halloween party, with its "Unleash your inner Negro" theme fanning the smouldering fire as the party descends into riotous mayhem...
The winners are:
Diane Keep, Nottingham
Sam Stevens, Surrey
Melanie Pennie, Bradford
