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82) Killer of sheep
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Includes Killer of Sheep (a masterpiece of African American filmmaking and one of the finest debuts in history) and My Brother's Wedding (a young man working at his parents' store tries to find himself). Bonus features are included.
84) Scottsboro
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When nine black youths are falsely accused of sexual assault and other crimes in 1931 Alabama, a young journalist struggles to save them from being sentenced to death, an effort that is complicated by the shifting testimony of a key witness and the journalist's own past demons.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Honeydripper (2007): 1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced...
86) Cry me a river
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Tyrone Stokes returns to Brownsville, Louisiana, on a mission to save his son Marcus, who has been sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young white girl, and rebuild the family he lost.
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter...
88) The Wood
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their friendship, including the rites of passage from boys to men.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Pi Suleman is a black man from Memphis and proud of it. Still, he has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's prestigious University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague's prejudice and microaggressions. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by a powerful UAN professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted...
92) Bombingham
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Walter Burke, a soldier in Vietnam, reflects on his time in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
Series
Publisher
Synergy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Cab drivers Amos 'n' Andy (characters from the radio show Amos 'n' Andy) contract to transport Duke Ellington and his band out to Blair estate, where they meet Richard Williams who is in love with Jean Blair. Richard must find the deed to his family property before he can marry Jean. Meanwhile Amos 'n' Andy find the deed after spending the night in a haunted house
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Granger brothers left their family's Virginia estate, and the bad memories it holds, years ago, but their dying grandfather's request brings them home to a failing business, secrets, and a deathbed promise to make things right.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J'Ouvert...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of the field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his...