Courtney B. Vance
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Early in his career, actor Courtney B. Vance lost his father to suicide. Recently, he lost his godson to the same fate. Still, as mental health discourse hits the mainstream, it leaves the most vulnerable out of the conversation: Black men. In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes-- including diagnoses of...
Author
Series
61st Street volume 4
Language
English
Description
After stumbling on evidence of police misconduct, Franklin adjusts his defense.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 2
Language
English
Description
Moses makes contact with the one person who could save him. Martha chases political aspirations.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 3
Language
English
Description
Officer Logan begins to question his own department and Brannigan presses Moses for a confession.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 8
Language
English
Description
Franklin faces a setback. Moses takes the stand. A verdict is read.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 1
Language
English
Description
Moses Johnson is swept into a world of chaos and corrupt policing during a presumed drug sting.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 5
Language
English
Description
Moses reunites with an old acquaintance and Officer Logan gets a new position.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 7
Language
English
Description
Moses' trial begins. Brannigan testifies and a discovery threatens to derail Franklin's defense.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 6
Language
English
Description
Moses fights influences in prison and begins to doubt Franklin's motives.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
61st Street follows Moses Johnson, a promising Black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, and Franklin Roberts, the public defender who takes up his case. While Roberts has promised his wife he'll retire, he takes on this case because he recognizes its potential to upend the entire Chicago judicial system, challenging the institutional racism and endemic corruption at its heart.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. The third season will explore Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world. Grammy Award winner Franklin...
13) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In every American conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, American military men and women have captured the horror, pathos and intensity of battle by writing letters home. Collecting 50,000 war letters, using the most compelling and enlightening of the missives and newly discovered home movies, this tells the story of American wars from the viewpoint of the men and women on the frontlines and those who waited at home.
17) The piano lesson
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride...
18) Hamburger Hill
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
19) Dangerous minds
Publisher
[Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a class of inner-city teenagers.