Tag: BuzzFeed

Blueberry growing is popular around tiny Covert, Michigan, but how do these farmers of color keep their kids farming the land?

A reading list dedicated to queer and trans comedians, and comedians of color.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rana Dasgupta, Whitney Joiner, Jesse Barron, Kiese Laymon, and David Roth.

Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.

Los Algodones is a popular destination for people in search of cheap dental care — many of whom voted for Trump.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Linda Villarosa, Maurice Chammah, Mike Giglio, and Will Storr.

The plot of the book came to me as I was falling asleep: two girls share a bedroom, and squabble until they have no choice but to divide their room in half. Only one girl has access to the bedroom door. The other has the closet, which turns out to be an elevator. Suddenly, I was […]

At Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen has been reporting for months on the complex needs of state’s independent voter.

“But to bring cannabis to the region of the US where states are deeply red and religious and where pot is both a social taboo and a ticket to jail, Decker and others are harnessing their devotion to their faiths to evangelize for it.”

Karen Tongson was named after 1970s soft rock icon Karen Carpenter, and she examines what fuels the Carpenters’ popularity in her home country.

In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.

After a miscarriage, Laura Turner faces the sadness of returning to everyday life.

This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.

How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?

This week, we’re featuring stories by Reeves Wiedeman, Monica Mark, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Daniel Duane, and Danny Chau.

South African students of color are working to improve the conditions of education in a country that, twenty years after apartheid, is still rigged for the white minority.

Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?

Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”

I don’t remember consciously watching Buffy—it feels like I absorbed it by osmosis. It’s not perfect, but it is wonderful.

I was in the lobby of a theater in Washington, D.C. when I saw the first of the tweets about the Trump administration’s decision to stymie protections for transgender students on the federal level. It wasn’t until the play ended and I was on the Metro home that I had cell service; I began to piece together […]

When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.

Frederick McKindra examines how James DeMonaco’s The Purge and Jordan Peele’s Get Out turn the the horror genre’s racial dynamics upside down.

At BuzzFeed, Ali Watkins investigates the way the Russian consulate called Sergei Krivov’s death a heart attack when he seems to have died of blunt force trauma on the floor of New York City’s Russian Consulate building.

BuzzFeed has a touching, intimate excerpt of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me, Bill Hayes’s memoir of his relationship with late neuroscientist and author Oliver Sacks. 10-13-16 I, soaking in the bath, O on the toilet, talking, talking about what he’s been thinking and writing — short personal pieces, for a memoir perhaps. He […]

Rahawa Haile writes about hiking over 2000 miles on the Appalachian Trail in 2016, and carrying with her books by black authors, which she’d leave behind for others to find at shelters along the way.

Nate Parker’s film, The Birth of a Nation, and Manchester by the Sea, starring Casey Affleck, were the toast of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Both promised to dominate Oscar season. And both male stars had a history that included allegations of sexual impropriety. Nearly a year later, Parker’s Oscar hopes have evaporated entirely — […]

None of the following stories were written in 2016, but the themes of our contemporary American Thanksgiving traditions—family, identity, history—remain relevant.

At Buzzfeed, sober writer Michelle Tea takes readers on a tour of some L.A. establishments where she partied hard in 2001, the year she says she was hitting rock bottom with her addictions.

In the following essays, Antonia Malachik discusses the cultural implications of our aversion to walking; Garnette Cadogan relates how his walks are coded by his skin color, depending on where in the world he is; Adee Braun praises the New York eat-and-walk, and more.

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.