Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, American Violet tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four, living in a small Texas town (based after Hearne, Texas where the real incident took place). One day, while Dee is working a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Michael O'Keefe) leads a drug bust, sweeping Deeâs housing project. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the womenâs county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer.
Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges thus, jeopardizing her custody and risking a long prison sentence. Despite the urgings of her mother (Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney. Dee works with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and a former local narcotics officer (Will Patton) to take on the Texas justice system.[3]
Something the Lord Made tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies," Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def, The Italian Job) form an impressive team. But even as they race against time to save a dying baby, the two occupy very different places in society. Blalock is the weathy white Head of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Thomas is Black and poor, a skilled carpenter. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart.
Northwest African tribe called the Dogon have had knowledge of Sirius B, a.k.a. Dark Star for more then 1000 yrs. The ancient Egyptians held the same knowledge and are believed to be ancestors of the Dogon. In addition, the Dogon gained knowledge of this star system without a telescope.
A Northwest African Tribe known as the Dogon have knowledge of a distant invisible star in the Sirius constellation call Sirius B. They have had this knowledge for at least 1000 years and received it without the use of any telescopes. This same knowledge was also known to the Ancient Egyptians - because of this - along with their migration into their present territory (from Egypt into Mali), it is not hard to believe their Ancestors are the Ancient Egyptians.