John Henrik Clarke
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This short but timely work gives the reader a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time.... Like many of the Aftican-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his source of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day"--from Foreward.
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
America's Dream captures the joy, the pain, the struggle to survive in a land where dreams can be lost, and found. In 'Long Black Song, ' a hard working farmer invests what little he has in a gift for his wife, while back home she falls for the advances of a traveling salesman. In ' The Boy Who Painted Christ Black, ' a small town principal must risk his career to defend a young boy's image of a black Christ painted for a state-wide competition. And...