Leslie Uggams
1) The Ravine
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An unspeakable crime rocks a peaceful suburb, leaving family and friends to wonder if they overlooked the murderer among them. Inspired by true events, this haunting thriller stars Eric Dane, Teri Polo, and Peter Facinelli.
Publisher
Distributed by Legendary Entertainment Alliance
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogen Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Have a hot cocoa with Henry Fonda. Michael Jackson helps Oscar to understand the Spirit of Christmas.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
5) Deadpool 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Deadpool organizes a team to protect a mutant boy from a time-traveling cyborg.
6) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
8) Deadpool
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
9) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
10) Song yet sung
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets loose a riveting drama of violence, hope, and redemption among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz Spocott, a beautiful runaway slave, shot and near death, is wracked by disturbing visions of the future as she lies shackled to an old woman in the prison attic of the notorious...
12) Toe To Toe
Author
Language
English
Description
Toe to Toe tells the story of the friendship and rivalry between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior girls at a competitive Washington, D.C. prep school. Tosha is an African American scholarship student from Anacostia, one of Washington`s poorest areas, while Jesse is a troubled and promiscuous white girl from the ritzy suburbs of Maryland. The two forge a close and genuine bond on the field, but their friendship unravels as they navigate through...
13) The Ravine
Author
Language
English
Description
An unthinkable tragedy rocks a close community. Those who remain embark on a journey through the darkness, searching for understanding and solace.