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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.
2) Veo y veo
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged).
Description
"A boy goes for a walk where he sees a dog, trucks, flowers, a bird, and other things; and then goes home to draw them"--
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + episode guide.
Description
A spin-off from the seminal "All In The Family" series, the ground-breaking The Jeffersons chronicled the rise of jive-talking African-American dry cleaner king George Jefferson and his sassy, no-nonsense wife Louise "Weezy," as they left their blue-collar neighborhood, "movin' on up" to a luxury high-rise apartment in New York City."--Container.
4) Guess who
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Percy Jones is the understandably proud father of Theresa. She is a beautiful and intelligent young woman living in New York City. When Percy learns that his daughter is seriously dating a young man, he decides to do some research, and learns that her beau is a solid businessman. Percy arranges to meet Theresa's boyfriend and is a bit taken aback when he meets Simon. Percy never guessed that his daughter was involved in an interracial relationship....
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.
Formats
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.
A Lola le encanta escuchar a papá leer un libro nuevo de la biblioteca cada noche, una actividad que estimula su imaginación y resulta en un juego inventivo al día siguiente.
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Calvin está triste porque sus amigos de la casa de al lado se mudan, en especial cuando se da cuenta de que Harper, el peor bravucón de la Primaria Carver, ¡vivirá en esa casa! Mientras tanto, se esta animando el clima de la competencia para la feria de ciencias de la escuela. Calvin debe decidir qué hacer cuando sus datos no confirman su teoría. ¿Podrá Calvin evitar los problemas con Harper y, además, ganar la feria de ciencias de la escuela?...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter side...
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD, double sided (ca. 128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
11) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Durante la Gran Depresión, Bud, un niño que tiene 10 años, se escapa de su familia adoptiva y va en búsqueda de su padre. Bud cree que su padre es un gran músico.
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.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a trip to the picturesque snowcapped mountains in Colorado, eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. But the cozy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the course of the weekend, husbands and wives take a hard look at their lives, wrestling with issues of commitment,...
14) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, find themselves reluctantly attracted to each other, when they are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind.
16) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was...
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