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1) Till
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
2) Gook
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So) are two Korean American brothers that run their late father's shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles. These two brothers strike up an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old African American girl, Kamilla (Simone Baker). As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the store afloat, racial tensions build to a breaking point in L.A. as the infamous L.A....
3) Till
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Twilight is Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.
From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The play, Sizwe Bansi is dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play. Director: Peter Davis.
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
There's never been a better time to visit The Neighborhood. In Season Four, next-door neighbors Calvin Butler and Dave Johnson have become good friends but an unexpected twist in the premiere rocks both men, prompting them to realize just how much they share. While change is everywhere, from Gemma's pregnancy to Tina deciding to start a new business of her own, the beloved characters' relationships help them weather both life's highs and lows together....
8) Tyrel
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A man joins his friend on a trip for a weekend birthday party with a bunch of other men he doesn't know and discovers that he is the only black guy in the group.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Way back in 2002, the brothers were hot on the heels of The Man, the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate known as The Organization, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of oppressive, white snow. Sixteen years later, they are discovered, thawed out, and remain in a coma; Lionel sets out to finish the job they started. Lionel must take on an even more dangerous threat to the black community.
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
12 Years a Slave: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to...
12) Higher learning
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
First-term college freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
14) Race
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
15) Showing roots
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, as the miniseries "Roots" hits the airwaves, two women are inspired to try and integrate their small Southern town. In a place where there are still "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks, these two young women - one white, one black - forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence and self-discovery, and ultimately results in the creation of the perfect hairdo.
16) Hairspray live!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the 1960s competes for the star position on a popular dance show, and fights for racial integration.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
18) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and...
Author
Publisher
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
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