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81) This Christmas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ; Screen Gems
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
82) 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....
83) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 101 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"Free-spirited, living on the fly, Vanessa Hayes is still always down for traditional family holiday fun--until now. She's making her oft-delayed wish finally come true: Christmas in Paris, the glittering City of Lights when her passport gets delayed, it's too late for Vanessa to rebook. Now it looks like the Yuletide she longs for won't happen. Until a stranger suddenly enters her life, and changes it forever ... Overwhelmed by responsibility, Judith...
Author
Publisher
Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xix, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs, genealogical tables, facsimilies ; 24 cm
Description
"Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father's family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson-lore she firmly believed, though others did not. For four decades the acclaimed journalist and genealogy enthusiast researched her connection to Thomas Jefferson, to confirm its truth once and for all. After she was named a Jefferson Studies Fellow, Jessup White discovered her family lore was correct. Poring through...
Author
Description
This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event--one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret, Ice...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Jodie Patterson is the mother of five children, including her ten-year-old transgender son Penelope, the catalyst for the author's reexamination of identity within her own dynamic household--and the wider world. This inspiring and highly personal debut memoir goes on to examine Jodie's extended families' African American experiences with racism and civil rights, and her own coming of age in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, and later on as a wife,...
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (246 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"With family matriarch Pamela now deceased, outsider Carissa Walker is only a few scheming steps away from taking control of the powerful Sanders family and their fortune. But she didn't count on the return of Pamela's sister, Alexis, to stand in her way with a bombshell of a secret. Haunted by his past, Camron must come to terms with the imminent death of his father. While Torrance rebounds from a gunshot wound, trying to reclaim his basketball career,...
94) Root magic
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven- and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 128 min.) : sound, black & white ; 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.
99) Idlewild
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"When Desiree Johnson receives an unexpected call from her brother, Ernest, Jr., about their father, she and her sixteen-year-old son, Tyree, pack up and rush to her family's summer home in Idlewild. Desiree hasn't been to Michigan in over seventeen years, but when her family calls, she feels she has no choice but to answer. Arriving in the beautiful town, Desiree quickly realizes that no matter how long she has stayed away, the place still holds...
Publisher
Allblk, RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5 hrs., 32 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a long legacy that has brought them from slavery to the heights of wealth and power in Los Angeles, the Sanders family is now at a crossroads. Their world is turned upside down when matriarch Pamela Sanders suddenly and mysteriously dies, leaving her husband Cameran desperately trying to keep the family united. His daughter Theresa's scandalous affair, young Torrance's potential NBA career and Cameran Jr.s' out of control lifestyle all threaten...
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