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A Black Girl's History With Southern Frat Racism
Flickr: Jimmy Emerson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / Via Flickr: auvet When footage of the University of Oklahoma’s SAE fraternity singing a disgustingly racist chant — which included the phrase...
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The Night I Spoke Up About My #BlackSuicide
In October of 2013, I designed an elaborate plan to kill myself.At the time, I was working as an editor at a midsize news site. I showed up at the office each day, but mentally I was never really...
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My 8 Most Important Memories As A Book Lover
Keep reading. Nathan Pyle / BuzzFeed When I was 8 years old, my mother and I left our home in inner-city Boston and moved to a rural town in the middle of Northern Massachusetts. I was a city kid who...
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How I Live After My Body Turned On Me
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed I received the diagnosis in a letter, hidden in a long, dry paragraph detailing the results of countless blood tests. “From the above labs, your exam and history," my doctor...
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How Hollywood Is Slowly Accepting Natural Hair On Black Women
Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross on Black-ish. Kelsey Mcneal / ABC It’s no secret that television is more diverse than ever, with more roles written exclusively for non-Caucasian actors and more...
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Black TV Actors Never Stop Auditioning
From left to right: the cast of Empire; its creators, writers, and executive producers. Frank Micoletta / FOX My black actor friends and I sometimes joke that it would be easier to become the first...
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The Historical Feminist Roundtable, Bucket List Edition
Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed HYPATIA: Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Feminist Round Table, where I invite some of history’s most notable feminists to discuss an important and timely topic. I’m very...
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I'm An Asian-American Actor But I Can't Do The Accent
Randall Park has said he perfected his Taiwanese accent in order to prevent playing Louis on ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" as a stereotype. Michael Ansell / ABC A few years ago, when I was still pretty...
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My Best Friend The Schizophrenic
“Casper lit me up, from kindergarten through the end of high school, and I miss him.” Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed I'm going to call him Casper, because that's what I named him in two of my early stories,...
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How “The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing” Shaped My Twenties
Daniel Dalton/BuzzFeed/Penguin I cannot say for sure when I first read Melissa Bank's The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. I must have been in the very earliest of my twenties, because I know it...
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Self-Portrait Of The Artist As Ungrateful Black Writer
No, I’m not happy to “just be here.” Racism doesn’t vanish the moment we set foot into the ivory towers and glittering soirees of the literati. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed The November weekend after author...
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7 Personal Essays You Need To Read This Week: "Asian Accents,"...
This week, BuzzFeed Ideas shared a series of essays from actors of color on their casting experiences. Read those stories and others from Medium, Jezebel, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and more. "How...
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Even If It's Not Discrimination, You're Still That Girl
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Although she lost, Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has been...
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What Happens When Your Body Image Nightmare Comes True
I’d always been self-conscious about my abdomen. When I got endometriosis, everyone else became conscious of it too. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I was checking out at the grocery store, loading cat litter...
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How One Direction Helped Me Find My Girls
When Zayn left, I found support in the community of women who got me hooked in the first place: the 1D fandom. vulcains.tumblr.com When Zayn announced he would not be returning to One Direction, I had...
View Article15 Beautiful Words That'll Soothe Your Brain
The most mellifluous words you’ll hear all day. youtube.com / Via BuzzFeedVideo LINK: Based on this post.
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I Had Given Up On The NFL. Then Nana Became A Patriots Fanatic.
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed “Not again.”That was the text my dad sent me after Jermaine Kearse, the Seahawks receiver, bobbled the ball over his entire body like a contact juggler before holding onto it...
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Fresh Off The Boat Isn't Perfect, But It Saved My Relationship With My Mom
I wrote my mother out of my story, until primetime television called me out. Gilles Mingasson / ABC My mother is wholly uninterested in television, music, film, and all books except the Rich Dad, Poor...
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My Relationship Was A Different Kind Of Addiction
I was in love with a man who hurt me. By staying with him, I was only hurting myself. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed A dead suburb just east of Phoenix. It's long after midnight. I kneel on the sidewalk of an...
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I Benefited From The So-Called “Ethnic Casting Craze”
I’m a black actor who managed to land a role that in the past probably wouldn’t have even existed as an option for me. June Diane Raphael and Baron Vaughn in the Netflix original series Grace and...
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