Denise Nicholas
Author
Publisher
Agate
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in the Freedom Summer of 1964, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. As the long, hot summer unfolds, Celeste befriends several members of the community, but there are also those who are threatened by her and the change that her presence...
3) Proud
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The USS Mason entered WWII on a presumably doomed mission. The all African-American crew overcame the harsh realities of war abroad and segregation at home, and was finally honored for its heroism in 1994.
Publisher
Distributed by Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Room 222 chronicles the lives of teachers and students at Walt Whitman High School, in Los Angeles. The main character is Pete Dixon, an easy-going American History teacher who attempts to help out his colleagues and students. Besides his girlfriend and school counselor Liz McIntyre, he has the help of fellow teacher Alice Johnson, and the occasional interference of cynical principal Seymour Kaufman. Pete deals primarily with the racial tensions...
5) Ghost dad
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Elliot Hopper, an overworked widower killed in a taxi accident, returns as a ghost and must learn how to be seen and heard so he can take care of his family.
7) Blacula
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An African prince stalks the city streets to satisfy his desire for blood.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. Dr. Lyssa Hughes is a respected health crusader, devoted wife and mother, and the perfect candidate for U.S. Surgeon General... until a chance remark sets off a media feeding frenzy. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring David Birney, Anna Gunn, Jamie Hanes, Gregory Itzin, Michael Malone, Kevin McCarthy,...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The dilemma of Thyme Tyler, once again passed over for promotion in a Detroit car plant because she is black. A black co-worker encourages her to sue for discrimination, but Tyler's white husband, an executive at the plant advises her not to make waves.