It’s hard to come up with a country without a dark period in its history. However, it’s often difficult to understand the struggles of people far far away you have no relation with. In an attempt to spread empathy, Humans of New York have expanded its reach outside the metropolis. Shedding light on

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead,” John Updike (March 18, 1932–January 27, 2009) wrote. “So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?” There is a loveliness to this perspective,

Author: Cole Delbyck / Source: The Huffington Post In case you missed him amid the tulle and whatever Katy Perry was wearing at the Met Gala on Monday night, Stephen Colbert was also in attendance with his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert. The two, who’ve been married for nearly 25 years, probably

Photographer and journalism Brandon Stanton is the man behind Humans of New York, one of the most popular Facebook pages on the social network. If you’ve followed HONY, you know that he highlights the powerful personal stories of random strangers. HONY is all about diversity and the

Humans of New York posted this photo and passage to its Facebook page yesterday showing an older man in front of a bookstore holding a Shakespeare book of sonnets. Once the initial shock of seeing an actual bookstore wears off, the man’s story will leave you with that “just punched in the stomach”