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1) Glory road
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage...of racism, of the self-hate the racism breeds, and of racial...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
5) Grand Canyon
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
9) Freedomland
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
10) Without pity
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
As World War II ends, some African-American soldiers refuse to abandon northern Italy to return to the United States, due to the racial intolerance there, deserting instead.
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
[Standard format].
Language
English
Description
It's a bankroll ready for the taking. And it's too much to resist for racist ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan). He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with disgraced former cop Burke (Begley) - but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners (Belafonte) is Black. As tensions mount, and they get closer to their biggest score ever, Earl's hatred erupts, risking the heist...and their lives!
12) The intruder
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos."--Container.
14) Crash
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Director's cut edition.
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg is Odessa Cotter, a quietly dignified woman, who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband (Dwight Schultz) and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for...
16) Decoration day
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition, full screen version.
Language
English
Description
When an estranged friend refuses the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during World War II, a retired judge tries to find out why and in the process solves a mystery, heals his friendship, saves a marriage, and falls in love.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1107
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Newt Winger, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, learns about love, racial injustice, and the value of truthfulness when he makes a difficult decision after witnessing a murder in 1920s Kansas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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...
20) Black Dynamite
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take The Man down.
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