Summary: "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: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN HAMJAMAL, AHMAD.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMALJamal, Ahmad
Contents: Flight (6:29) -- Toulouse (6:55) -- The essence (10:10) -- Lover man (oh, where can you be?) (5:45) -- Catalina (6:40) -- Autumn leaves (6:56) -- Street of dreams (5:33) -- Bahia (6:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Birdology 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad.
Contents: Marseille -- Because I love you -- I should care -- Poinciana -- Land of dreams -- What's new -- So rare -- Whisperings -- Spring is here / Your story -- Emily
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarSummary: Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOMJamal, Ahmad
Contents: But not for me -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Moonlight in Vermont -- Music, music, music -- No greater love -- Poinciana -- Wood'yn you? -- What's new?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Argo 1958
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad.
Contents: But not for me -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Moonlight in Vermont -- Music! Music! Music! (Put another nickel in) -- Woody 'n you -- Poinciana -- Too late now -- All the things you are -- Cherokee -- It might as well be spring -- I'll remember April -- Gone with the wind -- Billy boy -- It's you or no one -- You don't know what love is -- Tater pie -- This can't be love -- Old devil moon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad
Contents: Introduction -- Effendi -- Dolphin dance -- Manhattan reflections -- Poinciana.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! ABC Records 1972
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JAMKalkaba, Hamad.
Contents: Astadjam Dada Sara -- Touflé -- Fouh Sei Allah -- Lamido -- Gandjal Kessoum -- Tchakoulaté.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KALAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWAJamal, Ahmad
Contents: New rumba / Jamal (4:39) -- A foggy day / Gershwin, Gershwin (4:23) -- All of you / Porter (3:15) -- It ain't necessarily so / Gershwin, Gershwin (3:00) -- I don't wanna be kissed (By anyone but you) / Elliot, Spina (3:26) -- I get a kick out of you / Porter (4:50) -- Jeff / Crawford (4:52) -- Darn that dream / Van Heusen, De Lange (3:10) -- Spring is here / Rodgers, Hart (4:01).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad
Contents: Old devil moon / E.Y. Harburg, B. Lane -- Ahmad's blues / Jamal -- Poinciana (The song of the tree) / Bernier, N. Simon -- Billy boy -- Will you still be mine / Adair, M. Dennis -- Pavanne / Gould -- Crazy he calls me / Sigman, B. Russell -- The surrey with the fringe on top / Hammerstein II, Rodgers -- Aki and Ukthay (Brother and sister) / Jamal -- Slaughter on 10th Avenue / Rodgers -- A gal...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1959
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JAMContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLRamadu.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN RAMBaby Huey
Contents: Listen to me -- Mama get yourself together -- A change is going to come -- Mighty, mighty -- Hard times -- California dreamin' -- Running -- One dragon two dragon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Water 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BABSummary: After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DEMSummary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeZaman, Muhammad H. (Muhammad Hamid)
Summary: "Superbugs, born of antibiotic resistance, are a growing global health crisis. Award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D. tells the story about how we got here and what we must do to combat this threat that connects us all"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020