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3) The Walk
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
4) The Believer
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
7) Not My Idea
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A white child sees TV coverage of a police shooting-and has some questions. Adults in the child's life deflect and turn away, but a narrator, voiced by the author Anastasia Higginbotham, invites the child-and viewers-to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop.
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, Paul (Will Smith) deftly penetrates the world of art-dealing New York urbanites Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland). But as Paul's tangled web of dropped names and near-fame begins to unravel, he provides his hosts with much more than just the ultimate cocktail party anecdote - he sets in motion a series of events that will alter the course of their lives! Ian McKellen and Mary Beth...
10) Q & A
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Assistant D.A. Reilly (Hutton) is assigned to investigate an incident in which veteran street cop Lt. Brennan (Nolte) killed a Puerto Rican drug dealer.
11) Cane River
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a "free community of color" in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity-the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
13) Small island
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
14) The hate U give
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
15) Monster's ball
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version (19x9 ; 2.35:first).
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a bankroll ready for the taking. And it's too much to resist for racist ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan). He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with disgraced former cop Burke (Begley) - but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners (Belafonte) is Black. As tensions mount, and they get closer to their biggest score ever, Earl's hatred erupts, risking the heist...and their lives!
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and Hugh Dillon, it follows the McLusky family-power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
19) Rising free
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1887, a young woman, Nakomay, is on the run for her life throughout the vast terrain of the Oregon territory. Relentless persecution and devastating adversity drove her to a life of seclusion, having everyone she ever loved stripped from her grasp. A harrowing journey leads her into the arms of a gracious family that takes her in as one of their own. Over time, she begins to process through the pain she's buried deep within, learning what it truly...
Author
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 racial...
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