Courtney B. Vance
Author
Series
61st Street volume 1
Language
English
Description
Moses Johnson is swept into a world of chaos and corrupt policing during a presumed drug sting.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 5
Language
English
Description
Moses reunites with an old acquaintance and Officer Logan gets a new position.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 3
Language
English
Description
Officer Logan begins to question his own department and Brannigan presses Moses for a confession.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 4
Language
English
Description
After stumbling on evidence of police misconduct, Franklin adjusts his defense.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 8
Language
English
Description
Franklin faces a setback. Moses takes the stand. A verdict is read.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 7
Language
English
Description
Moses' trial begins. Brannigan testifies and a discovery threatens to derail Franklin's defense.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 2
Language
English
Description
Moses makes contact with the one person who could save him. Martha chases political aspirations.
Author
Series
61st Street volume 6
Language
English
Description
Moses fights influences in prison and begins to doubt Franklin's motives.
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Early in his career, actor Courtney B. Vance lost his father to suicide. Recently, he lost his godson to the same fate. Still, as mental health discourse hits the mainstream, it leaves the most vulnerable out of the conversation: Black men. In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes--including diagnoses of depression...
Series
61st street volume season 1
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
61st Street follows Moses Johnson, a promising Black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, and Franklin Roberts, the public defender who takes up his case. While Roberts has promised his wife he'll retire, he takes on this case because he recognizes its potential to upend the entire Chicago judicial system, challenging the institutional racism and endemic corruption at its heart.
Series
Genius volume season 3
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. The third season will explore Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world. Grammy Award winner Franklin...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
14) Joyful noise
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
Series
Lovecraft country volume season 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
16) Dangerous minds
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.
17) The divide
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As nuclear warheads rain down on Manhattan, nine strangers barricade themselves in their apartment building's bunker-like basement controlled by the unhinged superintendent. But within days, supplies dwindle, tempers flare, and the trapped survivors will be overcome by treachery, madness, sexual torment, and savage violence. What follows is intense. It is raw. And it is all brutally, horrifyingly real.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used without her consent to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks (Winfrey), the film chronicles her search, along with journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne), to learn about the mother she never knew and understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical...