features writer @washingtonpost, emotional and digital in nature
May 9, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
This is Joshua Smith, a client of @GeorgetownLaw's Civil Rights Clinic. In May 2020, while visiting family in Virginia, his legs went numb. 911 was dialed.
12 hours later, he ended up face down in a jail cell, unconscious and permanently paralyzed. Let me tell you his story.🧵
After the 911 call, an ambulance took him to the ER of a local hospital in Galax, Virginia.
Noticing that Smith had previously been on opioid medication, the doctors and nurses assumed he was looking for drugs. They gave him a shot of Benadryl. Then they called the cops on him.
Jan 31, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Today is my last day as senior articles editor of @GeorgetownLJ, so I thought I would share some pointers for authors in #lawtwitter submitting to the spring cycle, which opens tomorrow for us! After poring over thousands of submissions last year, here's what has stood out to me:
1. Effective titles often caught my attention, especially when it was 1 a.m. and I was up assigning articles. Intros should tell us upfront what's original about your piece — like in journalism, don't bury the lede
Apr 11, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Thread: Georgetown students vote today on raising their own tuition by $27.20 to compensate descendants of an 1838 slave sale, led by @Students4GU272. It could be the first actionable reparations plan for slavery in America. politico.com/magazine/story…
The funds raised by the fee — $400,000 — in the first year, would be allocated by a board of five descendants and five students. Descendants could then apply for grants if they go to public-good initiatives (i.e. not checks)
