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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-and-off houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. As the cameras rolled and Holliday spun tales, sang songs and donned costumes through the night, a mesmerizing portrait formed...
63) Get a hit, Mo!
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?"--
64) Calling my name
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"--
65) Shoelaces
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American girl describes the joys of all different kinds of shoelaces.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The number of infants who die before their first birthday is much higher in the U.S. than in other countries. And for African Americans the rate is nearly twice as high as for white Americans. Even well-educated black women have birth outcomes worse than white women who haven't finished high school. Why? We meet Kim Anderson, a successful Atlanta lawyer, executive and mother. When Kim was pregnant with her first child in 1990, she, like so many others,...
68) Swim, Mo, swim!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
Publisher
Sweet Blackberry
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Janet loved to dance, and she especially loved BALLET! When the world renowned Ballet Russe came to town holding auditions in 1934, Janet could hardly wait for her moment to shine. But, things weren't always fair for black girls in America... DANCING IN THE LIGHT tells the inspiring story of the first African American prima ballerina, Janet Collins. Narrated by actor and comedian Chris Rock, this story teaches us that we can be anything we set our...
70) Garrett's Gift
Publisher
Sweet Blackberry
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of African American inventor Garrett Morgan. As a young boy, Garrett didn't know what he was good at. He always seems to be getting into trouble. Upon moving to the big city, Garrett witnesses a series of collisions. His creative thinking and imagination lead him to invent the traffic signal. Narrated by Queen Latifah, GARRETT'S GIFT teaches us that we are all given a gift, but what’s most important is that we give that...
71) The Ball Method
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alice Ball, a 23 year old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10 year old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
Publisher
Sweet Blackberry
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848. Narrated by **Emmy**-winning and **Academy Award**-nominated actress Alfre Woodard this lightly animated story uses entertaining verse to share Henry’s story. With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids...
73) Champagne
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
CHAMPAGNE is the true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation, and her outlook for the future. Starring the voice of the real-life Champagne, this award-winning film shows how hope can spring forth even in the most challenging of times. Featuring the voices by Ruby Dee and Linda Lavin.
74) Roots
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
75) Starring Grace
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbour, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has an accident.
76) The Davenports
Author
Series
The Davenports (Krystal Marquis) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the history and personal experiences of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond – Driving While Black explores the background of a phrase rooted in realities that have been a part of the African American experience for hundreds of years – told in part through the stories of the people who lived through it.
79) Rat Film
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary that uses the rat as a passageway into the dark, complicated history of Baltimore. A unique blend of history, sci-fi, poetry and portraiture, RAT FILM brilliantly breaks documentary norms and dissects how racial segregation, redlining, and environmental racism built the Baltimore we see today. What begins as an examination of our interactions with rats – portraits of rat afflicted citizens, use of rats in labs, development of rat poison...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor, soda spokesman and theater director. He and Carmen...
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