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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Artists Juvenile fiction Christmas Fiction Death Juvenile fiction Family life Fiction Grandfathers Juvenile fiction Michigan Juvenile fiction Saving and investment Juvenile fiction Swimming Juvenile fictionSummary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Rowser, Jamila
Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWBower, Gary.
Summary: With rhyming text and colorful illustrations, children explain how they earn money and consider what to do with it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storybook Meadow Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOWBower, Gary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storybook Meadow 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.74 BOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI BowerBower, Gary
Summary: A family learns that every Christmas is a perfect Christmas -- not because of what it brings, but because of who it celebrates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2000