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(0)Ruby Dee
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Language
English
Description
Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.--From...
Author
Language
English
Description
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates, boldly and brilliantly, African-American culture and heritage....
3) The stand
Publisher
Paramount Picture
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping...
4) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Sean Connery stars as a retired Harvard law professor who strives toprove the innocence of a young black man sentenced to death in Floridain this hard-edged, complex legal thriller.A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight yearslater, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convictedman on death row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For thesmall-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's noquestion...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America's folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.
For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America's folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fast-talking Jack McCall says whatever it takes to close a deal. After stretching the truth with a spiritual guru, he suddenly finds his life depending on a magical tree with 1,000 leaves, one for every word he has left. Now Jack's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading rainbow! For over 30 years, this beloved children's television series has been bringing stories to life. Hosted by acclaimed actor LeVar Burton, journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books.
9) America
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
America is a biracial boy with a troubled past and what seems to be a very uncertain future. While staying at a treatment center he must learn through the help of his therapist and another patient to confront his past demons in order to begin a new life for himself. Includes a featurette
10) Baby geniuses
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Baby geniuses form a super commando rescue squad to squash the evil Dr. Kinder's plot to dominate the world.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith..."splendidly vivid and true."—New York Times
Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.
The bittersweet and often hilarious taleswhich range from longer narratives about God,
...13) Betty & Coretta
Publisher
eOne Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two extraordinary women-Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X-come to life in this Lifetime Movie Network movie. After their husbands' tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights movement while supporting their families as single mothers. Through their strength and dignity, they became role models for millions of women.
Series
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Attica: Demanding improvements in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
Publisher
Feature Films for Familes
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When 11-year-old Jason Ross is cut from his little league team his undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team. In searching for a new coach, Jason comes to believe that Mack Henry is really Buck McHenry, the legendary pitcher from the old Negro Baseball Leagues. While Mack begins to coach this rag-tag team, Jason and his friends set out to prove his true identity
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An ex-Union Army Cavalry sergeant becomes a scout for freed slaves heading to the Colorado frontier. Tagging along with him are his wife and a Bible-thumping con artist. Attacked by racist bounty hunters, Buck and his followers must summon courage in order to help settle the wild west.
19) The stand
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Release of a killer virus seems ready to destroy all on earth, but the survivors band together, some choosing the demonic leader Randall Flagg, leading to a final showdown between the forces of evil and of good.