#West

Movie references in hip-hop songs, a thread: Jay-Z on “Murder To Excellence,” referencing The Silence of the Lambs. Jay-Z on Kanye West’s “So Appalled,” referencing The Dark Knight. Black Thought
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Thread: People underestimate the anger in China towards the west and it's accomplices. The party is much more restrained than a large section of the public and the ultranationalists who
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For those of you mystified by Trago Mills: four shops in the south west. It’s like The Range on steroids and includes shit like petting zoos and miniature railways. The
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In an effort to encourage me to note new words more often, and to have an easy reference, a thread of words I didn't previously know, and the essays or
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As RWA starts, I'm thinking of Black romance authors & editors from the 80s & 90s whose names deserve to be celebrated. Vivian StephensElise WashingtonBarbara StephensAngela Jackson (1/2 of Lia
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Live boxing on Showmax Pro tonight: Derrick Chisora vs Oleksandr Usyk Gervonta; Davis vs Leo Santa CruzA thread http://the254hub.com/2020/10/31/live-boxing-on-showmax-pro-tonight-derrick-chisora-vs-oleksandr-usyk-gervonta-davis-vs-leo-sant
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Dashboard for 27-Oct to explain where the #covid19uk total death increase figure of 367 actually comes from. The PHE dataset merge resulted in a net of 115 additional deaths today.
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One thing I think many politicians and "experts" have not yet fully realized is that the West's recent tough stance against China is pushing away a generation of young Chinese
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Two political disasters, Singur and Nandigram, hit the CPI-M. And the communists haven’t yet recovered. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee now resembles the tattered CPI-M of the mid-2000s, with
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Watching Nawest for the first time! I'll try and keep things to a thread and not tweet every 5 seconds. I want to start by saying though I love the
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Such a wildly premature judgment. "The deference to Western societies, which was the norm in the 19th and 20th centuries, will be replaced by a growing respect and admiration for
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I’m confused. It’s reasonable and respectful to call Dr. Cornell West a doctor but it’s a problem and an offense to call Dr. Jill Biden a doctor? Make it make
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X : You don't like crypto currency?Me : Not in its current forms such as bitcoin. If we solve the energy issue however there are all sorts of potential opportunities
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To the Egyptians saying that hate crimes against black people aren’t affecting us & that we should speak up about our “own issues” instead. Away from the fact that you
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Between 1904-1908, German soldiers murdered 65,000 Herero people and 10,000 Nama people who rose up to protest land seizures and forced labour by colonists in what was called German South
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B.1.618 - a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2 predominnatly found in India and characterized by a distinct set of genetic variants including E484K , a major immune escape variant. Initial sequences
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