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Stewart, KiyannaSummary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quijncy taught each other how to play the game. Now, their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game ... between family and team ... between Love and Basketball"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOVSummary: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLASummary: Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOSummary: A pseudo-documentary exploring an alternative history of the United States beginning with the Civil war being won by the South, having an alliance with Germany against Japan, and a cold war with Canada.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CSASummary: August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risks his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PASSummary: Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MALSummary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAMSummary: With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son Jesus, to play ball for the Governor's alma mater! Includes theatrical trailer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HESummary: "Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard), which elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Omar Epps (Higher Learning) make for one of the most iconic screen couples...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVSummary: A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOUStewart, Kiyanna
Summary: "BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Our Things is a visual exploration into the world and work of the highly successful vintage/antique concept shop and growing brand, BLK MKT Vintage, that expands upon the founders' vision to center, preserve, and make accessible vintage objects that tell Black stories"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 704.0396 STESummary: Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INSSummary: A witty, yet poignant cinema vGeritGe documenting the life of a struggling New York actress who hopes to get more than a fleeting taste of fame when a racy cereal commercial brings her unexpected national notoriety. An earnest documentarian, who senses this actress's dreams are about to be fully realized, tracks her every move, attempting to capture the essence of someone in the seconds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GreeneStreet Films 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LISSummary: Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MalcolmSummary: Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceeded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHESummary: A secluded school for magicians faces danger from a fantastical flying creature outside and sinister forces inside. While visiting Velma's sister Madelyn, who's enrolled at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, the gang gets lots more than rabbit emerging from a hat. A greedy ice-cream mogul wants to close the place, a screaming banshee gives everyone the creeps and a mythological half-dragon,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010