Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Selleck, Cassie Dandridge
Summary: "In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Cassie Dandridge Selleck] 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SELHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLContents: Run to Jesus for refuge (Charles Barnett) -- Joe Turner (Ed Young & Hobart Smith) -- The Titanic (Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & the Georgia Sea Island Singers) -- Witness for my Lord (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Dark day (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- The very same God (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Gospel train (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- I got a home (Nat Rahmings, Hobart Smith & Ed Young) -- Hey, hey, honey...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOULeslie, Tonya
Summary: "Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ONEYoungblood, Leslie C.
Summary: When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD YOUBaldwin, James
Summary: At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 BALDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and his friends form a clubhouse after someone vandalizes their basketball court, and they soon uncover a clue that may tell them who did it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: After rescuing an orphaned deer, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs club members decide to stage a neighborhood animal show to raise money for the local wildlife rescue center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012