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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustration, photographs (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
Born into poverty in Shreveport, Louisiana in the 1940s, Richard Williams was blessed by a strong, caring mother who remained his lifelong hero, just as he became a hero to Venus and Serena. From the beginning of his life, Richard’s mother taught him to live by the principles of courage, confidence, commitment, faith, and love. He passed the same qualities on to his daughters, who grew up loving their father and valuing the lessons he taught them....
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Series
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs., 3 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a white co-ed is murdered in the same way that a series of black women were recently killed, L.A. police coerce detective Easy Rawlins to become involved in the case.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Description
An intimate portrait of Trayvon Martin shares previously untold insights into the movement he inspired from the perspectives of his parents, who also describe their efforts to bring meaning to his short life through the movement's pursuit of redemption and justice.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad.Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York"--
"Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and children: "What is your name? No, what's your real...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 414 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, healthcare, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on...
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
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Description
"A southern Black railroad worker confronts the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity as he attempts to settle down with his new wife and track down his father"--
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
4 CDs (241 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
Publisher
Question Why Films
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One black boy's journey through college and into adulthood. A compilation of intimate musings, short and long. An anthology of reflections linked to distinct moments in time. A series of meditations on life, love, and the lack thereof. Not merely a 'Black' book or even a 'millennial' one. A human book.
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