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Billy Dee Williams
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gerald the giraffe longs to dance, but his legs are too skinny and his neck is too long. At the Jungle Dance, the warthogs waltz, the chimps cha-cha, and the lions tango. "Giraffes can't dance," they all jeer when it's Gerald's turn to prance. But with some sound advice from a wise cricket, Gerald starts swaying to his own sweet tune.
3) Brian's song
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A true story based on the unique relationship between the black Gayle Sayers and the late white athlete, Brian Piccolo.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader readies the second Death Star to unleash the final blow to the Rebel Alliance. Luke Skywalker with his two droid allies, and Princess Leia, travel to Tatooine to free Han Solo, imprisoned by Jabba the Hutt. Reunited, the Rebels go to the moon of the planet Endor where Rebel forces launch an attack upon the entire Imperial Fleet. But the ultimate battle is between father and son, as Luke faces Darth Vader one last time, as the fate of the...
Publisher
DVD Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A top-secret allied invasion will fail unless a strategic dam can be saved from German forces! An untested black army unit, which has worked itself deep behind Nazi lines, is the only hope for saving the dam. Racial tension explodes when a prejudiced white commando officer is sent to forge the soldiers into a lethal combat outfit. Facing certain suicide, the soldiers and their commanding officer must earn each other's respect!
8) Mahogany
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Description
A poor girl is a success when she becomes a world-famous fashion model and designer. But at the same time, she yearns for her boyfriend back home.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When Leon and his producer lose their radio show because of Leon's X-rated on-air comments, he figures things can't get worse. But then he gets a letter from a former flame promising him a lifetime of wealth and happiness. Now all he has to do is figure out which one of his "Sweet Things" wrote the letter.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Undercover Brother uses gadgets and disguises to steal from the rich and give to the poor. His activities are discovered by the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., a spy organization devoted to subverting The Man and his henchman, Mr. Feather, who use their power over the media to demean black people and destroy racial unity. The spy organization is run by The Chief. When a popular black political figure calls a press conference, presumably to announce his presidential...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Driven to kill: An ex-Russian mobster who is now a crime novelist must confront his past when his family is targeted by violence.
Best of the best 3: no turning back: A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.
Mask of death: When his wife is killed in a botched FBI operation, Agent McKenna becomes a man with nothing to lose.
Men of war: A former Special...
