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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In this sweeping account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present day. We meet pioneering black thinkers such as Horace Cayton, a graduate student whose work on the South Side of Chicago established a new paradigm for thinking about Northern racism and black poverty in the 1940s. We learn how the psychologist Kenneth Clark subsequently linked the slum...
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (800 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Crime drama set in Baltimore and focused on the drug culture of the inner-city from the point of view of both the criminals and the police. With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of...
9) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 498 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In this season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Armenian mob and becomes a dangerous...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a young African American man in the Watts section of Los Angeles in the summer following his graduation from high school.
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"From one of the most daring voices in urban fiction comes a sexy new novel about a modern-day Foxy Brown who goes undercover in a dangerous quest for revenge. Naeema "Queen" Cole takes care of herself. From the death of her parents when she was just eleven years old to when she found herself pregnant and alone at sixteen, Naeema has had to make her own way in the world. She gave up her son for adoption and became an apprentice at a barber shop,...
14) Life after death
Author
Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
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Description
With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher with a can-do attitude at New York's inner city Calvin Coolidge High. Crowded classes, broken windows, lack of chalk and books are only a few of the problems she will have to face.
17) Tight
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008, p2002
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force-- even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.
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