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African American Fiction and Non-fiction March 2020
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Database of the month: eFilms are free on NHCPL's website!
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The library offers four different eFilm subscriptions you can access for free with your library card. In addition to NC Digital library, NC Kids Digital library, and Just for Kids Access Video we also offer Access Video or Films on Demand. The Access Video collection provides over 25,000 high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Features include: • Captioning and cross-searchable interactive transcripts on all titles • iPad, PC, Mac, and Android friendly • Public performance rights • Citations in MLA, CMS, and APA formats, with EasyBib integration for up-to-date citation creation and export • Ability to embed persistent and authenticated video clips into course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, and Canvas • Create and share personalized playlists using segments from multiple videos Click on "E-Resources" near the top of the page then "eFilm" Choose which subscription you wish to explore
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Films on Demand
This collection provides over 21,000 thousand high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. The videos include Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries plus interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
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An unconditional freedom
by Alyssa Cole
Rescued from slavery after his dreams of becoming a lawyer are shattered, Daniel is offered a position with a covert organization of African-American spies, unaware that his new partner is a double agent intent on betraying him. By the author of The Extraordinary Union.
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The wives we play
by Briana Cole
A woman who only dates married men, because she likes that there are no strings attached, begins to have stronger feelings about a man she's seeing and must explore her expectations about love, lust and monogamy.
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The travelers : a novel
by Regina Porter
A first novel by an award-winning playwright follows the experiences of two American families, one black and one white, against a backdrop of historical events from the 1950s through the first year of Barack Obama's presidency.
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We cast a shadow : a novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
In a near-future South where an increasing number of people with dark skin endure cosmetic procedures to pass as white, a father embarks on an obsessive quest to protect his son, who bears a dark, spreading birthmark.
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The safe house
by Kiki Swinson
With the local police closing in on her as the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend’s disappearance, a fierce, strong woman has no choice but to ditch the feds and take down a cartel leader on her own.
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The Toni Morrison book club
by Juda Bennett
What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, the writers--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal conversations about everything from first love to Soul Train to police brutality, all told with an ever present lens on race in America. Not shying away from controversies, this book offers a radically new way to envision book clubs as a healing force in our lives.
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Let love have the last word : a memoir
by Common
The Grammy Award-, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning musician, actor and activist presents a follow-up to One Day It'll All Make Sense that explores how love and mindfulness can build communities and inspire positive empowerment.
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Hurricanes : a memoir
by Rick Ross
Hip-hop icon Rick Ross describes his life growing up in Miami during the height of the city’s crack epidemic and how he worked as dope boy in a notorious housing project while honing his musical talents.
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Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
The author looks at the evolution of the rap group describing their early days as part of a rap collective, their first albums, their 1998 breakup and their comeback after the 2016 presidential election, and analyzes their musical and cultural influence.
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Lagniappe: Books to Movies
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Color purple
The story of Celie, a poor black woman from the south, whose friendship with two women helps her overcome the brutality of her father and husband
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Precious /
Pregnant for the second time by her father and abused by her mother, Harlem teenager Precious Jones finds hope through a counselor and a teacher at her new school
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Pursuit of happyness /
Based on a true story, Chris Gardner takes custody of his son as he begins a non-paying stockbroker internship, leading the two through a punishing quest for a better life
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Roots
Chronicles a black man's search for his heritage and reveals an epic panorama of America's past by tracing the story of Haley's family line from the post-Civil War era to his modern day search for his roots. Kunta Kinte and Fiddler learn that the son of a plantation owner helps slaves escape and try to help him, hoping they can escape as well
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Their eyes were watching God
When forced into a marraige with a much older man, Janie Crawford falls in love with a much younger man, causing a scandal in her small Florida town
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Think like a man
Four men learn that the women in their lives are reading Steve Harvey's book, "Act like a lady, think like a man" and using Harvey's advice against them
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Waiting to exhale /
A portrait of four African-American women who learn to depend on each other while waiting for that one good man who will take their breath away
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Wiz /
A schoolteacher in Harlem is whisked away by a snowstorm to a fantasy New York City in order to find herself
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