Ruffin, Amber

Summary: "Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other's nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially if we've grown up in different generations. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn't gone anywhere. From her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Wilmore, Larry.

Summary: A correspondent for "The Daily Show" shares humorous and provocative views on race in America, in writings that explore such topics as Black History Month, Black Jesus, and "racist hurricanes."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8009 WIL

Hughley, D. L. (Darryl L.)

Summary: The well-known comic and radio host satirically examines how racism predisposes Blacks and minorities to safety and health risks, including a lack of access to medical care, healthy food, and clean air and water.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 HUG

Ruffin, Amber

Summary: Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 COX

Nathan, Amy

Summary: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Dry Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 NAT