Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDDawson, Keila V.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Beaming Books] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 DAWSummary: Roberto Miniverni tells the story of a black community in the American South during summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country that is not on their side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: Traces the history of black America back to ancient African civilization, examining attempts by the white establishment in the U.S. to conceal this knowledge as a means of undermining African American identity. Presents theories of scholars and social commentators which comprise a history in which African Americans have been systematically oppressed as a people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSmith, Clint
Summary: 'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 973 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SMISummary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOSmith, Tracy K.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023