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Courtney B Vance
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61st Street volume 2
Description
Moses makes contact with the one person who could save him. Martha chases political aspirations.
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61st Street volume 7
Description
Moses' trial begins. Brannigan testifies and a discovery threatens to derail Franklin's defense.
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61st Street volume 3
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Officer Logan begins to question his own department and Brannigan presses Moses for a confession.
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61st Street volume 1
Description
Moses Johnson is swept into a world of chaos and corrupt policing during a presumed drug sting.
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61st Street volume 5
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Moses reunites with an old acquaintance and Officer Logan gets a new position.
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61st Street volume 8
Description
Franklin faces a setback. Moses takes the stand. A verdict is read.
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61st Street volume 4
Description
After stumbling on evidence of police misconduct, Franklin adjusts his defense.
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61st Street volume 6
Description
Moses fights influences in prison and begins to doubt Franklin's motives.
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Early in his career, actor Courtney B. Vance lost his father to suicide. Recently, he lost his godson to the same fate. Still, as mental health discourse hits the mainstream, it leaves the most vulnerable out of the conversation: Black men. In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes-- including diagnoses of...
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950's Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
61st Street follows Moses Johnson, a promising Black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, and Franklin Roberts, the public defender who takes up his case. While Roberts has promised his wife he'll retire, he takes on this case because he recognizes its potential to upend the entire Chicago judicial system, challenging the institutional racism and endemic corruption at its heart.
14) Ben is back
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
15) The fight
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
This documentary captures the anticipation that the bout between African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling generated, the events leading up to it, the impact Louis's victory had on blacks and its significance for Jews.
16) The Last supper
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
In the heartland of Iowa, five grad school liberals share a house, a left-wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism. But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.
17) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.
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HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Description
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...
19) Joyful noise
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
20) Hamburger Hill
Description
For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
