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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
4) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
10) Resting place
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a patriotic and racially divided Georgia community, a neighbor helps a young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place for their son, an army officer whose mysterious death is under investigation by Major Kendall Laird.
11) Gospel Hill
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood Gospel Hill, are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar development causing thirty-year-old racial discord to resurface.
12) Grand Canyon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involving their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman lives with the singular dream of being a cricket star, but much to the dismay and ridicule of his classmates, he is all passion and no skill. The son of a traditional Jewish family living in the racial and cultural turbulence of 1960s South London, David and his world are shaken by the unexpected arrival of the Samuels, a lively and big-hearted Jamaican family.
14) Skin deep
Publisher
Iris Films
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A diverse group of college students reveal their honest feelings and attitudes about race and racism. Students are interviewed alone, and then discuss the issues in a group setting.
16) Restaurant
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the comings and goings of the interracial staff of waiters, waitresses, bartenders, cooks and managers as they work together in a bar and grill in Hoboken, New Jersey. They are all waiting for their big breaks into the theater scene.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi, during the Great Depression of the 1930's, the Logans are one of the few Black families who own their own land. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan doesn't understand why her parents attach so much importance to this, any more than she understands the Night Riders, white men who terrorize her people.
18) Freedomland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter. Professor Gates...