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LOLLots of well read, fine ass thick woman, and youre the only brotha around. I fail to see how this is a problem for you.
It's just jarring to me that I'm always the only black dude in there.
It's just jarring to me that I'm always the only black dude in there.
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Word, the fact i have read the book so far before the release of the film now i can't help but worry the production is going to let me down. As long as the storyline is kept similar and characters are cast well i think it will hold though.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot
It's an easy read, but disturbing. I have to put it down sometimes because it makes me angry. It's pretty fukked up the way they exploited this woman and how so many white people in the STEM and health field have made millions of dollars off of her cells, and at the time the book was published her descendants couldn't even afford health insurance.
Here's more information:
The Immortal Life « Rebecca Skloot
About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.
Soon to be made into an HBO movie by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.
It's an easy read, but disturbing. I have to put it down sometimes because it makes me angry. It's pretty fukked up the way they exploited this woman and how so many white people in the STEM and health field have made millions of dollars off of her cells, and at the time the book was published her descendants couldn't even afford health insurance.
Here's more information:
The Immortal Life « Rebecca Skloot
About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.
Soon to be made into an HBO movie by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.
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For some reason the image won't load up.
That "link" does look like the code you'd have to enter to get into the alien mothership.
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Aurelius was a philosopher right? How's the book so far? I'm interested
T-K-G
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an emperor who kept a diary which ended up being a philosophy book
dope so far, just gettin into it but it's dope seeing how a ruler was thinking as he ruled
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Finished Suicide Squad novelization a couple of days ago
and about to start either Bloodline by Claudia Gray or Shadow of the Empire by Steve Perry
and about to start either Bloodline by Claudia Gray or Shadow of the Empire by Steve Perry
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I'm reading Dune, because I've never read and a lady friend bought it for me.
But I just bought this yesterday.
Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. But after a girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Now Jason is a professor at a small Chicago college, content with his warm and loving family life until he’s abducted into a world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. In this world, Jason didn’t marry his girlfriend and never had a son. Jason is determined to get back to his family and his own world, but nefarious powers in the alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology.
I also picked up a favorite, And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie).
But I just bought this yesterday.
I also picked up a favorite, And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie).
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bought a few more for the backlog
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