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(0)Ntozake Shange
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Martin Luther King's wife, Coretta, who in her own right, was a civil rights pioneer who experienced the injustices of the segregated South and who continued her husband's mission after his assassination.
5) Betsey Brown
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Language
English
Description
"With astonishing lyrical beauty and dramatic intensity, Ntozake Shange tells the story of thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, a colored girl poised between the enchanted world of childhood and the passionate promises, romantic and political, of the adult world. Set in the colored community of St. Louis in 1959, the year school integration disrupted everybody's lives, Shange's story traces the stress lines created in black families not only by racism...
Author
Publisher
Amistad/Collins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates ordinary African American citizens and well-known leaders who stood up for their inalienable rights during the Civil Rights Movement and acted for justice during a time of revolutionary change in twentieth-century America.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A tribute to select African American men including Paul Robeson, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois, Ray Barretto, Earlington Carl "Sonny Til" Tilghman, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Dr. Kwane Nkrumah, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, Virgil "Honey Bear" Atkins, and the Clovers.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection include: Duke Ellington; Ellington was not a street; Ella Fitzgerald: the tale of a vocal virtuosa; and John Henry read-along and discussion questions.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label's beginnings to 1972. Inspired by the book "Standing in the shadows of Motown" by Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky.
