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41) Clerks
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
43) Ethnic notions
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ethnic notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the evolution of racial consciousness in America. Loyal Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, grinning Coons, savage Brutes, and wide-eyed Pickaninnies roll across the screen in cartoons,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (335 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. "For Jackie, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. In the second season..., Jackie struggles to keep up as a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse"--Container.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (334 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie's best friend and husband put the pieces together about her pill-popping ways and confront her about her addiction. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don't know Jackie. The great white liar returns for another hilarious season of 12 episodes.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby? Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty--and fun--in their routine and the world around them.
48) It's criminal
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
49) The address
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17 are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. As the students come to terms with the address's simple message...
50) War zone
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 45 min.)
Language
English
Description
What's it like to walk down the street and be heckled, harassed, followed, and touched by men? Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West armed herself with a video camera to show us, confronting the men who abuse her in this fascinating and critically-acclaimed documentary.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be--just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nation's first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a historical American cycle of racial progress and white backlash. In American Whitelash, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 40 min.)
Language
English
Description
This video explores the forces influencing young people's decisions about sex: media, friends, family, religion, love, AIDS, alcohol, and homophobia. Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion is a unique, accessible tool for facilitating an informed, balanced discussion about these and other influences on young people. In the age of AIDS, such talk can save lives. When young people tell their own stories, their peers listen. In this program, award-winning...
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 280 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness, but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own all Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli, whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating.
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.
"This...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (333 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (577 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest TV dramas of all time continues with 13 gripping fourth season episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Small-town life in Dillon has changed irrevocably with the dramatic split of the school district. Coach Taylor finds himself fighting for the respect of the East Dillon Lions, while his wife Tami faces her own battles as Principal of the Dillon High Panthers. Across town, it's a season for change as graduating students face...
57) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning historian chronicles the long-running clash between white people and federal authority by focusing on Barbour County, Alabama and its history of fighting Reconstruction, integration, and the New Deal.
Publisher
Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Sixth edition.
Physical Desc
512 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Advice on surviving--and thriving in--all aspects of one's first year in college, from hundreds of college students and graduates (as well as several experts)"--
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook : color illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty--and fun--in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights...
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