This week for BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha chronicles a modern-day lynching in Mississippi. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
"This Is What They Did for Fun" — BuzzFeed News
Craig Anderson was headed home to celebrate his birthday with his partner. Instead, he became the victim of a brutal and violent form of racism that many in Mississippi had thought long gone. "This was not simply a murder. This was a lynching." Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Did the FBI Transform This Teenager Into a Terrorist After Reading His Emails? — BuzzFeed News
Mohamed Mohamud was a conflicted teenager when undercover FBI operatives convinced him he would bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. Five years later, Nicolás Medina Mora and Mike Hayes investigate how Mohamud's case could determine whether the American government is allowed to spy wholesale on its citizens. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Unfollow — The New Yorker
Adrian Chen discovers how Twitter led Megan Phelps-Roper, the granddaughter of infamous pastor Fred Phelps, to leave the incendiary Westboro Baptist Church. "By following her opponents’ feeds, she absorbed their thoughts on the world, learned what food they ate, and saw photographs of their babies. 'I was beginning to see them as human,' she said." Read it at The New Yorker.
Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker
Why Are so Many Black Transgender Women Getting Killed in Detroit? — BuzzFeed News
More trans women were killed in the United States in the past 12 months than any year on record — and nowhere do the violence and homicides appear as concentrated as the Palmer Park area in Detroit. Dominic Holden went to ask trans women who live there what they think is happening. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Laura McDermott for BuzzFeed News
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