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(0)Gordon Parks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gordon Parks is remarkable: a Renaissance man who has mastered photography, filmmaking, and writing. The story of his life is certainly an incredible one. Transcending voyeurism, Parks' photographs reveal vulnerabilities of the human experience with grace and compassion. In his 90s and still driven to experience what the world has to offer, and to express his response to it, Gordon Parks is an inspiration to us all."
-Janet St. John, Booklist
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10) Bare witness
Author
Publisher
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University in collaboration with SKIRA
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
15) Super fly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie is picked up by the police. Freddie...
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Offers a photographic account of the events of September 11, 2001, the rescue efforts in the days following the attacks, and the response of a nation united in sadness, pride, and resolve. Includes President Obama's speech on the death of bin Laden.
18) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
20) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Shaft: John Shaft, a private investigator, is hired by a Harlem crime boss to find his kidnapped daughter. During his investigation, Shaft uncovers a Mafia plot to take over a chunk of the Black underworld's uptown territory.
Shaft's big score!: Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder. This is the second film in the Shaft series.
Shaft in Africa: Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the...