Inequality
Louisiana Bars Problem Doctors From Practicing Medicine In Most Hospitals. So They Treat Incarcerated People Instead.
Ten of Louisiana's 12 prison physicians have had their medical licenses restricted or suspended at some point. The state’s incarcerated people have nowhere else to turn during a pandemic.
Addy Baird
COVID-19 Is Devastating India. Its Government Is Trying To Censor Social Media.
As thousands of people die each day, the Modi government is cracking down on people criticizing it online.
Pranav Dixit
Donald Trump Is Gone, But QAnon’s Sex Trafficking Conspiracies Are Here To Stay
After years of propaganda and misleading statistics, child sex trafficking conspiracies have become a gateway to right-wing extremism.
Otillia Steadman
These Are The Self-Defense Weapons — And Burdens — Asian Women Are Carrying Because They Don’t Feel Protected
“Carrying my defense weapon gives me peace of mind, but it is also a sad reminder of my vulnerability as an Asian woman.”
Tanya Chen
Here's How People Have Been Protesting The Death Of Daunte Wright Near Minneapolis
For three nights residents of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, have been protesting after a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Pia Peterson
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy.
I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for.
Pranav Dixit
Amazon Has Defeated The Union Drive In Alabama
Around 3,200 Amazon workers cast ballots in the pivotal election, which marked the closest that one of the company’s US warehouses has come to unionizing.
Caroline O'Donovan
Your Local Police Department Might Have Used This Facial Recognition Tool To Surveil You. Find Out Here.
Search through BuzzFeed News’ database to find out if the police department in your community is among the hundreds of taxpayer-funded entities that used Clearview AI’s facial recognition.
Ryan Mac
How A Facial Recognition Tool Found Its Way Into Hundreds Of US Police Departments, Schools, And Taxpayer-Funded Organizations
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
Ryan Mac
A Top Medical Journal Said “No Physician Is Racist.” Now Scientists Are Boycotting.
After a podcast from the prestigious journal JAMA questioned whether systemic racism exists in medicine, doctors and researchers are pressing for sweeping changes.
Stephanie M. Lee
The CDC Is Pushing Back Against Critics Who Say COVID-19 Death Numbers Have Been Overcounted
COVID-19 drove a 15.9% increase in the nationwide death rate in 2020, alongside increases from heart disease, injuries, Alzheimer's, and diabetes.
Dan Vergano
The US Labor Board Isn’t Strong Enough To Protect Workers From Amazon. Some Union Organizers Want To Go Around It.
In the lead-up to the biggest union vote in Amazon’s history, the company has already shown it can break the rules and get away with it.
Caroline O'Donovan
Atlanta Sex Industry Workers Say They’re Used To Being Branded “Sinners” — And Fearing For Their Lives
For workers at nearby sex shops and strip clubs, last week’s attack on spa employees and customers marked a deadly escalation of long-standing hostility against the sex industry.
Otillia Steadman
These Photos Show The US Has A Long History Of Racism Toward Asian Americans
Photographer Tōyō Miyatake, who was forced into a camp himself, documented the experiences of Japanese Americans during their World War II incarceration by the US government.
Pia Peterson
My Life Was Shaped By Anti-Asian Racism. I Can’t Hide My Pain Anymore.
For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.
Venessa Wong
West Virginia Is Trying To Block Needle Exchanges Amid The Worst HIV Outbreak In The US
A nonprofit needle exchange that detected an HIV outbreak in Charleston has triggered a backlash in the state legislature. “It’s a public health disaster,” one expert said.
Dan Vergano
The Capitol Police Released Its Annual Public Report. It’s One Page Long.
“What we've seen over the decades with the Capitol Police is that they're the least accountable security force in the country.”
Emmanuel Felton
Asian Americans Have Been Protesting Violence Against Their Community For Months
Across the US, protests have called attention to hate incidents against Asian Americans, fueled in part by racist responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pia Peterson
A Native American Tribe In Oklahoma Denied Black Citizens COVID-19 Vaccines And Financial Relief
“We’re stuck in a system that doesn’t care about us,” one Black citizen of the Seminole Nation said.
Joseph Lee
A Very True, Very Biased Look At Small-Town America
"I'm trying to highlight that this is home and that home has its flaws and it can be anywhere. There are these sides to every town that we just pass over and write off."
Kate Bubacz
Los requisitos de identificación buscan frenar el turismo de vacunas, pero pueden excluir a residentes vulnerables
En teoría, las demostraciones de residencia y los requisitos de identificación buscan asegurar que las vacunas para COVID-19 se distribuyan de manera equitativa, pero las reglas están excluyendo a la gente que buscan proteger.
Stephanie M. Lee
These Maps On Zillow Seem To Accidentally Show The Invisible Legacy Of "Slum Clearance"
Ghost boxes in Zillow's maps of cities like Chicago and Cincinnati appear to mark the homes bulldozed to build freeways — and the neighborhoods that were displaced in the process.
Caroline Haskins
Facebook Helped Fund David Brooks’s Second Job. Nobody Told The Readers Of The New York Times.
The New York Times columnist has been using his perch to promote the Weave Project — without disclosing his potential conflicts of interest to his readers.
Craig Silverman
How Has Putting Your Student Loans On Hold Changed Your Life?
If your student loans are in forbearance and you suddenly have more money than normal, BuzzFeed News would like to hear from you.
Pia Peterson
ID Requirements Are Meant To Stop Vaccine Tourists, But They Can Also Shut Out Vulnerable Residents
Proof-of-residency and ID requirements are supposed to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are equitably distributed — but the rules are shutting out some of the people they aim to protect.
Stephanie M. Lee
This Billionaire Has Been Partying Through The Pandemic While His Company’s Workers Died
Ricardo Salinas Pliego has seen his net worth rise to $13.5 billion during the pandemic. But while he’s partied on his yacht, his workers have faced deadly conditions that violate Mexico’s pandemic rules.
Karla Zabludovsky
After The Texas Snowstorm Knocked Out This Woman’s Power, She Had To Race To Keep Her Daughter Alive
This mother of seven was left without electricity, which she desperately needed for her daughter, who has a condition that requires a machine to get food into her body.
Adolfo Flores
Many Essential Workers Down The Street From Yankee Stadium’s Vaccine Site Are Still Waiting For Access
Yankee Stadium’s mass vaccine site was supposed to reduce disparities in one of New York’s hardest-hit areas, but shortages are making it hard to get in.
Rosalind Adams
Texas Was "Seconds And Minutes" Away From An Uncontrolled Blackout, Officials Said
By Thursday, outages had left 500,000 without power and led to at least 10 deaths.
Zahra Hirji
Meet The Women Making Inclusive Creative Spaces For Black Joy: "If I Don't Do This Work, Who Will?"
"There are so many Black stories out there to tell that I don't think we have even scratched the surface of, so I hope to see more of that this year."
Pia Peterson
