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Hip-Hop's Top Tier Goes Silent On Ferguson
Superstars like Jay Z, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne — fitful allies in the fight for civil rights — may be suffering from outrage fatigue. Ethan Miller / Via Reuters Like most people who rap for a...
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Missing — And Finding — The Magic Of Haruki Murakami
The incredibly popular Japanese writer just released his latest book in English . It’s a departure for him, and for me. (Minor spoilers, insofar as a Murakami book can be spoiled.) Chris Ritter for...
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What Sofia Vergara's Emmys Sketch Means For Latinas
You spin me right ‘round. And I’m not liking it. By now, you've probably seen some of the chatter surrounding Sofia Vergara's sketch at the Emmys. It involved Vergara posing on a giant spinning...
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How To Pitch Personal Essays To BuzzFeed Ideas
BuzzFeed Ideas is relaunching and we’re looking for unique, well-told personal essays that people will want to share. Here’s an FAQ. Ask yourself: Is this something that is either a) taboo yet...
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Famed Syrian Cartoonist Turns Pen To James Foley — And Ire On Obama
Ali Ferzat, an award-winning satirist and cartoonist, takes on the Foley murder with a new drawing, exclusively published here. “We thought this would only affect the people of the Middle East. But...
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Literature's John Hughes: Rainbow Rowell On Her Love Affair With Music and...
The author of last year’s acclaimed Eleanor and Park talks to BuzzFeed about the the soundtrack to her prose and shares an annotated playlist for her newest novel, Landline . Justine Zwiebel /...
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Those Jennifer Lawrence Pictures Aren’t Scandalous
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters More than 60 years ago, an It girl not dissimilar to Jennifer Lawrence also had highly suggestive and topless photos emerge into the public sphere, just as her career was...
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I Have Spina Bifida And I Am Beautiful
Illustration by Paula Searing for BuzzFeed I went to a wedding last summer. I was wearing a cute new dress and sweet little flats. I felt pretty. The time between the ceremony and reception was spent...
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These Charts Show How Much College A Minimum Wage Job Paid For, Then And Now
A summer’s work at minimum wage used to easily pay for a whole year’s tuition. Not now. Burlingham/Burlingham In the summer of 1976, just before my freshman year at the University of California at...
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The Devastating Loss Of Joan Rivers
The comedian, who never wanted to stop working, has died at 81. Joan Rivers at the premiere of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Lucas Jackson / Reuters Thanks to...
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Joan Rivers Should've Always Punched Up
The bigoted, easy “jokes” she sometimes fell back on weren’t worthy of her. But when she went after bigger targets, she always nailed it. Virginia Sherwood / NBC / Getty Images Joan Rivers worked very...
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Inside The Secret World Of Teen Suicide Hashtags
Young people will always find ways to talk about depression, self-harm, and internal pain. Right now these conversations are happening with hashtags on the internet. Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed "It's...
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What Sofia Vergara's Emmys Sketch Means For Latinas
You spin me right ‘round. And I’m not liking it. By now, you've probably seen some of the chatter surrounding Sofia Vergara's sketch at the Emmys. It involved Vergara posing on a giant spinning...
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How I Rebuilt Tinder And Discovered The Shameful Secret Of Attraction
Why we swipe the way we swipe. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed Suppose you're a straight woman thumbing through Tinder while waiting for the train, avoiding your homework, or bored at work. A picture of a...
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Those Jennifer Lawrence Pictures Aren’t Scandalous
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters More than 60 years ago, an It girl not dissimilar to Jennifer Lawrence also had highly suggestive and topless photos emerge into the public sphere, just as her career was...
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The Unbearable Whiteness Of Late Night
Late night stays white because it’s taken everything it needs from black pioneers like Arsenio Hall. Comedian W. Kamau Bell weighs in on why that matters. The white men of late night. Getty Images /...
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My Year In The NRA
Illustration by Rob Dobi for BuzzFeed Not a week had gone by since Adam Lanza stole an AR-15 from his mother's arsenal, killed her, and drove through my hometown to Sandy Hook Elementary School to...
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15 Responses To The Question: "What Does The Word 'Queer' Mean To You?"
“Queer is what you make it.” Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed "I knew I was attracted to multiple genders for years but didn't know how to own it. The first time I called myself queer everything fell into...
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Bored Cops, "Suspicious" Women: On Getting Arrested In America
I’m a black woman who was arrested while out with my white male friend. The cops said it was a case of mistaken identity, but eight years later, I find that hard to believe. BuzzFeed I like my name....
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Ditching Twitter
The cost of ambient intimacy. Flickr: mizmak / Via Flickr/Creative Commons I started writing this post a month ago, and finished it during a vacation spent mostly offline. Since I started it, several...
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