Summary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: Betty Davis, an aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the '70s scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion, and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles, startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named Bitches Brew.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BETContents: Mighty river (Mary J. Blige) -- Intro/mudbound theme -- Laura mud drone -- Ronsel leaves -- Hap mud drone -- Land -- Country violence -- Whooping cough pt. 1 -- Whooping cough pt. 2 -- Hap recuperates -- Ties that bind -- Lovers/ve day -- Back on the farm -- A man oughta know -- Same old Jim Crow pt. 1 -- Same old Jim Crow pt. 2 -- Sorry, not sorry -- Ties that bind Pt. 2 -- Unravelings --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017