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381) If I grow up
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
Author
Publisher
Dorrance Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book is about Freddie Gray, a young black man who died in police custody in Baltimore as a result of a broken neck. Six officers were subsequently tried, but the trials of three were dismissed and the others were found not guilty on various charges. The charges were incorrectly placed by Attorney General of Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby. Mosby relied on the autopsy report which, in turn, took its opinion of the timing of Gray's death from the...
387) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Washington Post reporters Hamilton and Brown became a news story themselves when Hamilton's donation of a kidney to Brown became a symbol of their interracial friendship in a racially divided society. In this joint memoir, they describe the development of their friendship, the decision to donate, the operation itself, and the reaction of other people to the story. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
Series
30 for 30 volume 02, DVD 08
Publisher
ESPN Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jordan rides the bus (51 min.): After leading the Dream Team to Olympic Gold and taking the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship, Michael Jordan walked away from the game of basketball. Jolted by the tragic loss of his father, Jordan decided to pursue a lifelong ambition and play baseball. His brief career in the minor leagues was subject to intense media scrutiny and ridicule, but those who knew him best understood his need to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Counte Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving-men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till, a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time. In 1955, Emmett Till, aged fourteen, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. Several weeks later he returned, dead;...
395) Hand in hand
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten bold men, each one a strong link in a chain that spans American history. Beginning in Colonial times with astronomer Benjamin Banneker, including such civil rights leaders as Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr., and ending with Barack H. Obama II, the first African American president, it shows how these men who dared to believe and achieve withstood oppression, fought injustice, and broke barriers."--...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Betty & Coretta: 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...
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