Seyward Darby

Two months before she was killed in her home in Louisville, Breonna Taylor tweeted triumphantly, “2020 deff gonna be my year WATCH!”

On the NBA, Black Lives Matter, and “the ritual exploitation that benefits—and damns—us all.”

“Under the banner of diversity, racialized people are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we get held back.”

“The acclaimed novelist lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country. She writes through their story, and her grief.”

“A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.”

“In all likelihood they will come for you at night, after you’ve gone to bed.” Part of a special Buzzfeed investigation into China’s detention camps for Uighurs.

“Driving a New York City bus during a pandemic and an uprising.”

“Six tales of road tripping, camping, staycationing, and eating during the summer that wasn’t.”

“Again and again, the health-care system exploits the sense of obligation we have to one another.”