9/19/20 Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Here is the link to my September 19, 2020, Twitter thread about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in the US Supreme Court's 2018 ruling against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

3/15/20 review of the film The Secret Life of Bees, directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood

Here is the link to my March 15, 2020, Twitter thread review of the film The Secret Life of Bees, directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

6/14/18 review of the book Body and Soul, by Alondra Nelson

Here is the link to my June 14, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, by Alondra Nelson.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

2/28/18 review of documentary Whose Streets?, dir. by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Whose Streets?, directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis.

The thread gives a summary of the documentary, one of the best films of the decade, which is about Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown, Jr., by police in August of 2014. The thread discusses how the film examines communities, living in communities, media versus communities, how communities heal, questioning unjust realities, the generational fight for justice, and the need to just get out there and be involved.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.

12/20/15 review of documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, directed by Stanley Nelson, Jr.

My Twitter thread discusses some of the members of the Black Panther Party that I learned of through the documentary. It gives some of the basic philosophy of the party. It also discusses how the party related to some other groups I had been studying. And it discusses the FBI's relation to the party.

I saw this film at the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado.

12/22/14 review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Rebecca Skloot book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks who became a test subject for doctors in the 1950s. Her cells were taken without her permission and led to scientific discoveries such as the polio vaccine. Lacks's family discovered all of this decades later. Skloot tells the story of both Lacks and her family.

My thread discusses the story of Lacks and her family, as well as Skloot's efforts. It also discusses how the book looks at the history of both science and civil rights, as well as my own reflections on cell science.

Here is the link to Rebecca Skloot's page for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.