Contents: Africa we want fe go (Count Ossie's Rasta Family) -- None shall escape the judgement (Johnny Clarke) -- Haile Selassie (Laurel Aitken) -- Tales of Mozambique (Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari) -- Booma Yeah (Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus) -- Say (Mutabaruka) -- African Drums (Bongo Herman & Jah Lloyd) -- Hail the words of Jah (Ashanti Roy) -- Sam's intro (Count Ossie & The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE RASLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASOwens, R. J.
Summary: "The song "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" is personified, describing the Black history and culture that inspired its creation. Written in 1968 by singer James Brown after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the song became an anthem for the civil rights movement"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OWEWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSContents: Disc I. Mass meetings -- disc II. Ensembles.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1997
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Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROSummary: Portable and instantly accessible to all age groups. Bongos have been used in every type ofmusic genre, from Marvin Gaye to tech house and everything in between.If you have everdrummed a desk at work or stopped your child from banging the dinner table, then it’s only rightto turn a time killer into a talent and pick up a bongo today.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: RockJam
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Summary: "In Rise Up and Sing!, Andrea Warner explores how music has contributed to the fight for social justice. Across eight areas of activism--the climate emergency, Indigenous rights, civil rights, disability rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, gender equality, the peace/anti-war movement, and human rights--Warner introduces some of the artists, past and present, who have made a difference both on stage and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 781.64 WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 781.64 WARWasserstrom, Jeffrey N
Summary: "On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial centers of the world. The unraveling of Hong Kong, on the other hand, shatters the grand illusion of China ever having the intention of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.2506 WASDennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DENArlen, Harold
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Leonore overture : no. 3 / Beethoven (14:35) -- Trio for piano, violin & cello in A minor, op. 50. I., Pezzo elegiaco / Tchaikovsky (18:20) -- Sonata for cello & piano in G minor, op. 19. III., Andante / Rachmaninoff (6:46) -- Dichterliebe : op. 48 / Schumann (30:00) -- Concerto for 2 violins & [string] orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043 / J.S. Sebastian Bach (16:00) -- Pater noster / Tchaikovsky...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CONMara (Musical group)
Contents: Call from the south (6:17) -- To my first love (2:11) -- A curse on you strange places ; Harvest (4:42) -- All summer (part one) (3:43) -- Hey harvesters (part two) (0:57) -- A shepherd plays (1:57) -- He plays (part three) (1:33) -- Travelling light (9:51) -- Autumn ; Grape picking (4:53) -- On the grapevines (part one) (3:07) -- Sorrow suppressed (part two) (0:56) -- Eyes like berries (1:48)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARObomsawin, Robbin
Summary: "The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are world famous for their camps built from the land, surrounded by some of the most inspiring, untamed and stunning landscape in the world. This rugged terrain gave birth to its own form of distinctive architecture that has stood the test of time and remains a classic. Although the original great camps of the 1900s were so talked about because of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.097 OBOAhmed, Samira
Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMSummary: "Pete the cat learns the sounds of the different farm animals in this twist on the classic song"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE PETAndrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUIBrown, Nacio Herb
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 NASSummary: A look at the subject of abortion where there can be no absolutes, no "right" or "wrong." Equal time is given to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is "right" or "wrong."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAKKidz Bop Kids
Summary: "Monster Halloween hits in a continuous spooky mix! Includes spooky sounds bonus track!"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kidz Bop 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV KIDLavender Country (Musical group)
Contents: Come out singing (4:18) -- Gypsy John (4:10) -- Waltzing Will trilogy (5:43) -- Georgie pie (3:01) -- Cryin' these cocksucking tears (3:12) -- Back in the closet again (3:34) -- I can't shake the stranger out of you (2:40) -- To a woman (2:54) -- Straight white patterns (4:22) -- Lavender Country (3:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LAVBerlin, Irving
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury 1941
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMYapa, Sunil
Summary: Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016