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The Beauty of Blackness. by Moore, Kiana,film director.; Johnson, Tiffany,film director.; Vox Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Vox Media in 2022.In 1973, Eunice Johnson, the founder of Ebony and Jet, launched Fashion Fair - the first national cosmetics brand created exclusively for Black women. A revolution for its time, the brand would grow to become an iconic symbol of representation. This film chronicles Fashion Fair’s checkered past, and follows its new leadership in real time as they reinvent the brand amidst our present social upheaval and intensified competition.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Women's studies.; History.; African Americans.; United States--History.; Beauty, Personal.;

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. by Grimonprez, Johan,film director.; Lincoln, Abbey,actor.; Blouin, Andrée,actor.; Gillespie, Dizzy,actor.; Coltrane, John,actor.; Armstrong, Louis,actor.; Simone, Nina,actor.; Films We Like (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Abbey Lincoln, Andrée Blouin, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina SimoneOriginally produced by Films We Like in 2024.United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Arts.; African studies.; Foreign study.; Music.; History, Modern.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Current affairs.; History.; Jazz.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Congo (Democratic Republic).; United Nations.; Assassination.; Performing arts.;

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A Boston (R)Evolution. by McWilliams, Daphne,film director.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by PBS in 2024.A racially complex American city confronts its past and future. When a Black female city councilor, once bussed as a child to hostile neighborhoods, is catapulted to Acting Mayor, she breaks 200 years of white male mayorship. Boston's old-school politics are further challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are all non-white women.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Enthnology.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; African Americans.; Businesswomen.; United States.; African American leadership.; Massachusetts.;

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Hell put to shame : the 1921 Murder Farm massacre and the horror of America's second slavery / by Swift, Earl,1958-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War. Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of that mass killing and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before. By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political exposé, Hell Put to Shame also reintroduces readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the murders, at a time when white people rarely faced punishment for violence against their Black neighbors. The remarkable polymath James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed the first Black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, marshaled the organization into a full-on war against peonage. Johnson's lieutenant, Walter F. White, a light-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Black man, conducted undercover work at the scene of lynchings and other Jim Crow atrocities, helping to throw a light on such violence and to hasten its end. And Georgia governor Hugh M. Dorsey won the statehouse as a hero of white supremacists -- then redeemed himself in spectacular fashion with the "Murder Farm" affair. The result is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations.

Subjects: Case studies.; Manning, Clyde.; Williams, John S.; African Americans; Murder; Peonage; Plantation workers; Trials (Murder);

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Jump : my secret journey from the streets to the boardroom / by Miller, Larry(Larry G.),author.; Lacy, Laila,author.;

In 'Jump', one of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nikes Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business. #OwnVoices.

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Miller, Larry (Larry G.); Nike (Firm); Portland Trail Blazers (Basketball team); African American businesspeople; African American executives; Businesspeople; Executives; Juvenile delinquents;

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Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South / by Macy, Beth,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Muse, George.; Muse, Willie.; Circus performers; African American entertainers; Albinos and albinism; Kidnapping;

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Leaving Neverland [videorecording] / by Reed, Dan,television director,television producer.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Home Box Office (Firm),publisher.;

Film editor, Jules Cornell ; cinematography, Dan Reed ; composer, Chad Hobson.Interviewees, Wade Robson, "Jimmy" Safechuck, and family members.Originally produced by HBO in 2019.The two-part documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND explores the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James "Jimmy" Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. They and their families were invited into his wondrous world, entranced by the singer's fairy-tale existence as his career reached its peak. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 37, and Robson, now 41, as well as their mothers, wives and siblings, LEAVING NEVERLAND crafts a portrait of sustained abuse, exploring the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their experiences after both had a young son of their own.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009.; Robson, Wade.; Safechuck, James.; Adult child sexual abuse victims; Adult child sexual abuse victims; African American singers; Child sexual abuse; Sexually abused children; Rock musicians;

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Bloodlines of the Slave Trade. by Hancock, Markie,film director.; Video Project (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Video Project in 2023.Examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic link to John Armfield, one of the most notorious slave traders of the 1830s. Rodney Williams, who is Black, and Susanna Grannis, who is white, each trace their ancestry back to their distant ancestor, detailing the diverging paths their lineages took. While their relationship to this past is fundamentally different, and they never meet in the film, they both share in the telling of the horrific domestic slave trade and the ongoing reverberations of slavery.The film also navigates the lesser known "second middle passage" referred to as the "domestic slave trade." Starting in Alexandria, VA, where two of the wealthiest and most infamous slave traders of the mid-19th century were headquartered, Williams journeys along the Natchez Trace where in all likelihood his ancestors walked before him. In Alexandria, John Armfield and Isaac Franklin would either ship or march the enslaved down south to Mississippi or Louisiana for both future sale and brutal work on southern plantations. These cruel transactions involved separation from family members, long and arduous journeys chained together in coffles, and even more brutal working conditions once sold off in Natchez or New Orleans. His path along the trail illuminates the mechanisms and realities of chattel slavery, and illustrates the vast accumulation of wealth created by enslaved people, but held by slaveowners and benefitting their descendants.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; Human rights.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; African Americans.; United States--History.; Slavery.; Genealogy.;

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The League. by Pollard, Sam,film director.; Aaron, Hank,actor.; Robinson, Jackie,actor.; Mays, Willie,actor.; Mongrel Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Willie MaysOriginally produced by Mongrel Media in 2023.Told through the personal experience of notable Negro League umpire Bob Motley, THE LEAGUE explores Black baseball as a stage for some of the world’s best athletes, an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and the unintended consequences of MLB integration. The rise and fall of the Negro Leagues follows the arc of race history in the United States.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Health.; History, Modern.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Physical education and training.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; African Americans.; Race.; Racism.; United States--History.; Baseball.; Athletes.;

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Resistance in a Hostile Environment: Black Power. by Amponsah, George,film director.; Kulaaya, Daniel,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Daniel KulaayaOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2021.Charting the period between 1961 and 1971, this is a searing account of how members of the British Black Power movement challenged police oppression and political prejudice. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Criminal law.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Violence.; Racism.; African diaspora.; Police brutality.; Race relations.; British Isles.; Africa--History.;

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