High For The Holidays
It wasn’t until I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with my sister and my father that I began to come to terms with my family’s history.
It wasn’t until I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with my sister and my father that I began to come to terms with my family’s history.
Little black girls are taught when and how to be silent before anyone ever tells us we have the right to say no.
Her new self-titled visual album exposes the imperfection that first made me love her.
The “catch an illegal immigrant” event was deeply offensive not only to undocumented immigrants like me, but also to our American citizen relatives, allies, and supporters, because it struck the kind of ignorant, dissonant chord we fight against every day.
One night at a music festival, someone put something in my drink. What happened next was humiliating and taught me how common these incidents are, and how easy, and wrong, it is to blame the victim.
Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, Jack Kerouac, and even Jacqueline Kennedy show up in a new “sexual biography” of writer Gore Vidal. Author Tim Teeman examines why discussing the iconic writer’s sex life expands our understanding of him rather than contracts it.
Dante de Blasio’s bountiful fro has been a rare flash point in an otherwise drama-free New York City mayoral campaign, bringing the hairstyle’s cultural trajectory from revolutionary to mundane and now back again.
OMG! PUPPIES!!
Conversations with former interns reveal their role was a strange one that will be unique to fill. A director allegedly offered a room of unpaid interns $100 to whoever could come up with “a good idea” on the spot.
When you’re undocumented, a driver’s license is not only a driver’s license — it’s proof that you exist. And while immigrants and allies wait for Congress to act, some local leaders are stepping up.
My transition from scared kid to die-hard horror devotee was a lot like coming out of the closet. As it turns out, I’m not the only gay man who feels that way.
We all write online these days, whether it’s a dashed-off Facebook status or a lengthy blog post. But I wasn’t prepared for how I’d feel after I used my platform to discuss something — and someone — personal in pixels that would last forever.
“Where are you from?” is an innocent enough question. But for someone who’s spent her whole life bouncing from place to place — and sometimes, without any home to speak of at all — it only leads to more questions.
Also: predictably terrible.
We’re suddenly not feeling quite so proud to be British.
As well as investigating the geekier side of Springfield, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets reveals that the writers behind Futurama also snuck a whole heap of nerdy references into the show.
Although all Americans are glad the government shutdown is over, some are happier than others. BuzzFeed’s Data Science Team used Facebook’s Keyword Insights API to find out who talked the most about the shutdown.
Fear of Phone (FoP) is an increasingly widespread symptom of a text-only age. But what are we losing along the way?
Apparently Japan really, really likes Yahoo.
Bit.ly, a website that allows users to shortens URLs, released an interactive map Thursday that shows in realtime which site are most popular in every state according to bit.ly links.
Rising college costs, crippling student loans, and the worst economy since the Great Depression. You should have been born 10 years earlier.
Obsessive Game of Thrones fans know that to watch the show is to be blown away by its vastness — especially in regard to its cast. After constantly wondering how much time the actors are actually on screen as the show whips around its huge world, I decided to find out — so I calculated the screen time for the top 68 characters in the HBO drama’s most recent third season.
BuzzFeed ranked states by how often people there have sex (practical sexiness) and how sexy they are (superficial sexiness). Could be a good reason to move — or at least take a vacation.
RateMyProfessors recently released its annual lists ranking the nation’s top universities and professors. The data is based entirely on students’ input. See the list of the site’s top 25 universities.
Among other findings, a look at personal foul and unsportsmanlike conduct data from the past 10 years turns up a LOT of aggression in the Lone Star State and the allegedly relaxed West Coast.
All those things you’ve been told? They’re not true.
Republicans are lightweights and Democrats drink wine. See what else SurveyMonkey helped us dig up through a survey regarding people’s drinking habits and their stances on various political issues.
It’s not you, it’s me. How thinking about ourselves can skew our perceptions.
Over the last couple weeks, you probably saw a lot of news about two things: Miley Cyrus and Syria. But which story did people really care about most? We used Facebook’s new Keyword Insights API to analyze what people were talking about, and exactly who was doing the talking.