Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson DVD & Softcover Book - Save $5

In this Emmy� Award-winning documentary by Ken Burns, follow Jack Johnson's journey from his beginnings as the son of former slaves, to his entry into the brutal world of professional boxing, where he was able to battle his way up through the ranks and become the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World. The biography of Jack Johnson is accompanied by more than fifty photographs and draws from a wealth of new material.

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Director: Ken Burns
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Length: 240 Minutes on 2 Discs
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars - Book (Hardcover)

In Harlem in Montmartre, author William Shack takes a fascinating look at an extraordinary cultural moment, during the years between the world wars, when a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the United States and settled in Paris, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French.

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Production Year: 2001
Country Of Origin : United States

African American Lives 2 DVD + In Search of Our Roots Book - Save $5

The first AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES revealed the power in discovering one's family history. Now, Henry Louis Gates Jr. will guide a new group to discover their ancestry in AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2. The series will draw on DNA analysis, genealogical research and family oral tradition to trace the lineages of the participants, including Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Tina Turner, down through U.S. history and back to Africa.

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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past - Book (Hardcover)

Most African Americans, in tracing their family's past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through U.S. history and back to Africa.

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Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution DVD

The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic --- traumatizing Southern planters, inspiring U.S. Blacks, and invigorating anti-slavery activist world-wide. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Simon Schama's Rough Crossings DVD & Book, Save $5.00

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American Revolution. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end.

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Flyers in Search of a Dream DVD

Most Americans are familiar with Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart, but few know the stories of America's pioneering black aviators, who overcame social pressures to gain the right to fly. FLYERS IN SEARCH OF A DREAM documents the lives and adventures of early black aviators, from Bessie Coleman, first black to earn an aviator license, to James Herman Banning, first black to complete a transcontinental flight.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 1987
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Simon Schama's Rough Crossings DVD

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American Revolution. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 84 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution Book

When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled to reach the British camp. A military strategy designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. Author Simon Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks shedding light on a little-known chapter of American slavery.

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Production Year: 2007
Country Of Origin : United States

The Morgan Lacrosse Story DVD

This film tells the story of the nation's first and only college lacrosse team at a historically black institution. When a young white administrator reluctantly accepted the position of head lacrosse coach at Morgan State University a six-year journey began. Underscored by the Native American roots of the game, THE MORGAN LACROSSE STORY is a sports story like no other. This film recounts the tragedy and the triumphs of a truly inspirational team.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG+L
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

FRONTLINE: The Two Nations of Black America DVD

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the gap between the upper and lower classes of black America and probes why it has happened. Reviewing the thirty years that have passed since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Gates shows that while many blacks reaped the reward of the civil rights movement, just as many were left behind in an expanding underclass of poverty. Featuring interviews with Cornel West, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis and more.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 1998
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver DVD

In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life as a civil rights activist. It would be the last major interview Cleaver gave before his death in May 1998. This film draws on the 1997 interview, archival footage, and commentary from Cleaver's former wife Kathleen, as well as audio tapes of a 1975 interview that Gates did with Cleaver in Paris.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Prince Among Slaves DVD & Book Save $5

In 1788, a slave ship set sail towards America, with hundreds of men, women, and children. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were for sale in Mississippi. One of them, 26-year-old Abdul Rahman was a prince of an African kingdom. PRINCE AMONG SLAVES is the true story of an African Prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or hope for freedom. Purchase the DVD with the companion book and Save $5!

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Prince Among Slaves Book (Softcover)

In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who saved his life many years earlier. This thirtieth anniversary edition is a full account of Ibrahima's life and has been updated to include material discovered since the original printing and a review of new and important literature and developments in the field.

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Production Year: 2007
Country Of Origin : United States

Prince Among Slaves DVD

In 1788, the slave ship Africa set sail towards America, with precious cargo: hundreds of men, women, and children. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were for sale in Mississippi. One of them, 26-year-old Abdul Rahman, made an amazing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom. Prince Among Slaves is the true story of an African Prince, who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or hope for freedom.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Roots Complete Collection DVD 10PK Plus Free Book!

Roots was a groundbreaking TV series for U.S. viewers in the 1970s, awakening an astonishing reservoir of interest in African American genealogy and history, based on Alex Haley's award-winning book. Now see the original series, which made household names of Kunta Kinte and a generation of African American actors, in a unique set, paired with Roots: The Next Generation plus Roots: The Gift. Plus the origional Book!

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Roots Complete Collection DVD 10PK

Roots was a groundbreaking TV series for U.S. viewers in the 1970s, awakening an astonishing reservoir of interest in African American genealogy and history, based on Alex Haley's award-winning book. Now see the original series, which made household names of Kunta Kinte and a generation of African American actors, in a unique set, paired with Roots: The Next Generation plus Roots: The Gift.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Length: 1500 minutes on 10 Discs
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

African American Lives 1 & 2 DVD 2PK Combo Save $5

An unprecedented series, AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES uncovers a new level of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineages through American history and back to Africa, the series provides life-changing journeys for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans including Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones, Chris Tucker, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman and Tina Turner.

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African American Lives 2 DVD

The first AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES revealed the power in discovering one's family history. Now, Henry Louis Gates Jr. will guide a new group to discover their ancestry in AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2. The series will draw on DNA analysis, genealogical research and family oral tradition to trace the lineages of the participants, including Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Tina Turner, down through U.S. history and back to Africa.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 240 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG+VL
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Roots Softcover Book

Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. In that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

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Flyers in Search of a Dream DVD

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Roots Complete Collection DVD 10PK Plus Free Book!

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African American Lives 1 & 2 DVD 2PK Combo Save $5

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