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81) Sycamore row
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Publisher
Array Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set amidst the Grenada Revolution, THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD documents one family’s flight from racial tensions in 1980’s Oakland, California, only to find themselves settled directly in the path of a U.S. military invasion. First hand accounts from activists Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Fannie Haughton weave together director Damani Baker’s family portrait of utopian dreams, resistance and civil unrest with a film score composed by music luminary...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The Far Right is on the march. With an uncertain future before us, Britain’s political landscape is unstable, and violence is on the rise. The combination of Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency has empowered the Ultra Nationalist cause, leaving communities more divided than ever. Journalist Aran Tori is on a mission to track down these Far-Right Extremists and get to the bottom of what drives their hatred.
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Slavery officially ended in the United States 1865… or did it? When a reporter asks the first black female elected state official in Utah if she knew that the Utah Constitution still allowed for slavery, Rep. Sandra Hollins was stunned. Through the social upheaval and heated national election, Rep. Hollins and small band of activist joined together to end slavery in Utah. Words have meaning and many people were opposed to making the change. There...
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In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hopeof a new generation to move us forward.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 214 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma....
87) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them"--Publisher....
89) Zom-B clans
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"While saving the town of New Kirkham, B's old friend, Vinyl, is kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. The Angels are prepared to do what it takes to save him, but B will have to make some very hard decisions about her loyalties"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lotabout science...And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
91) Tremor: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New...
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Description
In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy.
93) Stalag 17
Publisher
ECHELONSTUDIOS
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
94) Equipier
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Camille arrives at the island Ouessant, where she was born, to sell the house of her parents. She finds a book of a certain man named Antoine and starts reading. A story of a stranger is told who came to the island in 1963. He wasn't well received, and would leave after 2 months.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Guie’dani is dragged to Mexico City by her mother to help in her work as a housekeeper for an upper-middle-class family. There, the subtle psychological subjugation inflicted by the white family functions as a metaphor for the oppression of the old world by the new. Yet, Guie’dani rejects the life of servitude and seeks her own identity through a friendship with another rebellious teen. A striking contrast to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, GUIE'DANI'S...
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"A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aau. Two young men were playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to play, too. Although it is debated when and where capoeira-an art form that blends martial arts,dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality-originated exactly, one thing is certain: in the early 20th century, Brazil was the only country in the world where capoeira was played, and it was mainly...
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"Black people are fatigued, says diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities, day after day. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, even well-meaning white people, who too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled. Winters describes how in every aspect of life, the trajectory...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
How 9/11 ushered in an era of fear, mistrust, and division in America. The compromises and consequences for American democracy--from the terror attacks, through four presidencies, wars abroad, and ultimately insurrection at home.
100) The Boys in Red Hats
Publisher
Jonathan Schroder/Shark Dog Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE BOYS IN RED HATS documents the controversial face-to-face encounter between students of an all-boys elite high school and a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the annual pro-life rally on January 18, 2019. It was the smirk-heard-‘round the world as 17-year-old Nick Sandmann, surrounded by cheering classmates, became one of the biggest names trending globally. Accused by the media for being racist and privileged,...
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