Ossie Davis
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set in present day, this classic Andersen tale is about a young African-American girl who learns the value of friendship with help from a pair of magic slippers. Starring the voice of Ossie Davis.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Adam, a brilliant trumpet player, is burdened with guilt following a car accident in which his wife and child were killed. He finds happiness briefly with another woman but turns to drink and is wrongly convicted as a drug-addict when arrested after a drunken brawl. Desperate for money, his agent books him a series of one-night stands and one night, while playing a farewell number with the band, Adam collapses. The audience believe him to be drunk...
3) Proud
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (627 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers," Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.
Clockers: a film about the violent world of drug dealing...
Author
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Author
Description
African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the...