This week for BuzzReads, Kathleen McLaughlin profiles an elderly activist who battled the Chinese government to expose the truth behind one of the country’s largest AIDS outbreaks. Read that, and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and the web.
The AIDS Granny in Exile — BuzzReads
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed the horrifying cause of an AIDS epidemic in rural China and became an enemy of the state. Now 85, she lives in New York without her family, without her friends, and without regrets. Read it at BuzzReads.
Photograph by Macey Foronda for BuzzFeed
Animals Were Harmed — The Hollywood Reporter
A must-read investigation into the American Humane Association's failure to protect of animals working in Hollywood: "... interviews with six AHA employees and an extensive review of internal AHA documents, including incident logs, emails, meeting minutes, audit assessments and more, strongly suggest that the organization’s fundamental work — protecting animals through credibly neutral on-set oversight — today is inadequate." Read it at The Hollywood Reporter.
Illustration by Jeremy Enecio for Hollywood Reporter
Riders on the Storm — 5280
Natasha Gardner looks closely at mental illness care in Colorado — where spending has increased by $25 million since James Holmes' massacre in an Aurora Movie Theater. The stigmatization of the mentally ill, thanks to a violent few, has set that state, where one in four suffer from mental illness, and our country at large. Read it at 5280.
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Two Gunshots — New York Times
A Times collaboration with Frontline that looks closely at the case of a sheriff's deputy's girlfriend found dead. The authorities ruled suicide even though her boyfriend's story and history of violence — not to mention forensics — indicated otherwise. Were investigators complicit in covering up a crime? Read it at the New York Times.
Photo provided by the O’Connell family / Via nytimes.com
