Summary: 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 HIDHillary, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 HILSummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUG1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUG
Jillson, Willard Rouse
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 JillsonSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc one. Better (Hezekiah Walker) (1:30) -- Chasing me down (Israel Houghton, feat. Tye Tribbett) (1:23) -- Wanna be happy? (Kirk Franklin) (1:28) -- Joy (VaShawn Mitchell) (1:54) -- I'm good (Tim Bowman, Jr.) (1:44 --) -- Pressure (Jonathan McReynolds) (1:05) -- Run run (Smokie Norful) (1:26) -- I'll be the one (Bri (Briana Babineaux)) (1:35) -- The question (Erica Campbell) (1:13) -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Inspiration 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWRicard, Matthieu.
Summary: In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves at least as much energy as any other in our lives. Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 RICContents: Guitar blues (Sylvester Weaver) -- Why do you moan? (Bo Weavil Jackson) -- James Alley blues (Richard Rabbit Brown) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew Baxter) -- Traveling coon ; Pick poor Robin clean (Luke Jordan) -- Workin' on the railroad ; Yellow woman blues (Buddy Boy Hawkins) --The fore day blues (Ishman Bracey) -- No job blues (Willard Ramblin' Thomas) -- Down south blues ; Out on Santa-Fe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES I'MSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUNMichaud, Stephen G.
Summary: On March 30, 2000, a middle-aged tree farmer named Robert Charles Browne, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Heather Dawn Church, writes some rhyming verse to authorities and says "The score is, you one, the other team forty-eight!"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 MICSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: I am legend: Immune to an incurable virus, Robert Neville believes he is the last human on Earth and tries to find a cure to stop the mutant creatures that still roam New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI POSSummary: Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: Célèbre tarantelle, op. 67, no. 5 / arr. Nicolas Ruiz Espadero, 1874 (7:24) -- Souvenir de Porto Rico, Marche des Gibaros / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (5:56) -- The dying poet : meditation / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (5:32) -- Tournament galop / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:19) -- O! ma charmante / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:56) -- Le Bananier : chanson Nègre / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTTSSummary: What happens when you throw together one fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, one just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and one recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That's the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! / Scream Factory 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOWCrouse, Megan
Summary: Profiling more than 250 characters from The High Republic era of the Star Wars galaxy, this ultimate reference introduces brave Jedi, ruthless Nihil marauders, cutthroat mercenaries and evil monsters who call this galaxy home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.43 CROSummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000