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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he profiles nineteen noted African Americans and illuminates their individual family sagas throughout U.S. history.
42) Up from slavery
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr., 6 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying those rights to more than twelve percent...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (179 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens and Cicely Tyson star in this gripping drama about a group of strong-willed women living in the rundown housing project of Brewster Place-a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish.
45) The Inheritance
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Ephraim Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora-and his own place within it-for nearly a decade. His feature-length debut, THE INHERITANCE, is a vibrant, engaging ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to form a collective of Black artists and activists.
46) Sounder
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk...
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press, the University of West Alabama
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of short stories looks at the Black experience in Oakland, California from the founding of the Black Panthers to present day, with aplomb, restraint, and humor.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
50) The Black towns
Author
Publisher
Regents Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c1979.
Physical Desc
xv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
51) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 321 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise--a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos" --
"Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of...
54) Flex is Kings
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A riveting and awe-inspiring look inside the world of Brooklyn street dancing known as 'flexing.' FLEX IS KINGS takes audiences along on the emotional journey of several young dancers who vie for a chance to make something of themselves by battling it out through this DIY art form. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*An eye-popper showing the old pop and lock brought to thrilling, disorienting extremes.*" - Alan Scherstuhl, ***The...
55) Black Boys
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
BLACK BOYS illuminates the full humanity of Black men and boys in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, Black Boys strives for insight to black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education, and criminal justice. Speaking with an array of figures - ranging from educators, athletes, journalists, activists, parents, and youth - the documentary explores the body, mind, voice, and heart of Black boys and the double edged sword...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Homer G. Phillips Hospital provided state-of-the-art medical training to African-American physicians and nurses during the most turbulent of segregated times paving way for people of color to achieve greatness for the benefit of humankind.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson comes a film that educates, informs, and examines more than 150 years of African American men and women who have embodied the qualities that are the heart of the American entrepreneurial spirit.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (39 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The luminaries of contemporary African American letters - poets, novelists, critics and actors - gathered in October, 2012 to pay tribute to Toni Morrison, read from her writings and share what it has meant to their lives and work.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. The film draws the viewer through the artist's lush garden and ornate home, into the martial arts dojo in his backyard and the laboratory in his basement - all of this just blocks from where he grew up in the housing projects of South Jamaica, Queens. Graves tells stories of discovery, struggle and survival, ruminates on the essence...
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