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81) Sankofa
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"Sankofa, an Akan word meaning, "one must return to the past in order to move forward," is the story about the transformation of a self-possessed African-American woman sent on a spiritual journey in time to experience the pain of slavery and the discovery of her African identity"--Box.
82) Incognito
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A beautiful, young and wealthy corporate executive witnesses a brutal crime and becomes a key witness. When the murderer is released and seeks revenge, her father hires a handsome bodyguard to protect her from the psychotic killer.
83) Grantham & Rose
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Seventeen-year-old Grantham struggles to find his way as a man when a spontaneous road trip thrusts him into the care of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American woman named Rose.
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Emmy Award winner Sergio Guerrero Garzafox delivers a timely thriller that leverages the power of social media and technology to comment on police brutality and profiling in these hyper-connected yet hyper-divided times. When an African American woman has an altercation with a white police officer it changes her destiny forever.
85) TNT Jackson
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"Diana Jackson, a beautiful young karate expert, journeys into the most dangerous part of Chinatown to battle the ruthless drug dealers responsible for her brother's death. Played by Jeannie Bell, a former Playboy Playmate of the month, Jackson provides a lot of spine shattering bone blasting action. Get out of her way or she'll put YOU in traction!"--Container.
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In the final season of the series, Overton and Synclaire enjoy their honeymoon and start their lives together. Though Kyle and Max go their separate ways after Kyle accepts a job in London, and Max begins to date, they might eventually reunite. Plus, an old flame returns to court Khadijah and Regine finds love as these very different women finally say goodbye to Living Single.
88) Set it off
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After a man from the projects commits a bloody bank heist, four tough female friends in L.A. think they could pull one off also, so they armor up and decide to make it a woman's game.
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Kelly Lofton has everything that a young woman could want, but money, prestige and material things can never compensate for the lack of love in her life. Her younger sister Susan hires Chad, a gorgeous young actor, to play her boyfriend for a weekend engagement party, but it isn't long before Kelly finds herself falling for Chad.
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African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they...
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Give Me 1 Reason: The dream of every mother is to have her son follow in his father's footsteps. It would be Theresa's nightmare if this happens to her son as it would lead him straight to the grave. How do you fight against the truth you've denied for so long? This dynamic movie redefines forgiveness and restores your faith in the family. (Family approved) -- [Originally produced as a motion picture.].
Jump In: Troy Alexander returns to her roots...
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Library of America volume 372
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"Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma, madness and terror. Her understanding of the inner lives...
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
94) Losing ground
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Losing Ground: Tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist....
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Baggage claim : Although she has traveled all over the world, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) has yet to find a man with whom she wants to settle down. However, her sister's upcoming wedding and pressure from her often-married mother force her to calculate that she has a month to find a fiance of her own. Montana's best friends and fellow flight attendants conspire to help her re-encounter her exes as they travel across the country,...
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Betty & Coretta: Two extraordinary women-Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X-come to life in this Lifetime Movie Network movie. After their husbands' tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights movement while supporting their families as single mothers. Through their strength and dignity, they became role models for millions...
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