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2) Daddy's home
Pub. Date
2015
Description
With a young daughter, two baby mamas, and his own mama breathing down his neck, Ronald 'R.C.' Carr has got more ladies in his life than he can handle.
6) The minority
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Jake Jackson is the nicest, most honest person anyone could ever meet. So when he gets accused of stealing a co-worker's purse, and then bombarded with racial biases, he really has to struggle to maintain some sort of normal life. Just when he finds himself traveling toward a path of insanity he manages to capture a wanted serial killer, which causes his luck to change and he finally gets the respect he deserves.
7) Soul plane
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Events become disorganized on the maiden voyage of an airline owned by an African American man.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Wilson's plays form a kind of fever chart of the unmooring trauma of slavery. Their historical trajectory takes African-Americans through the shock of freedom at the turn of the century (Gem of the Ocean); to the reassembling of identity in the teens (Joe Turner's Come and Gone); the struggle for power in the urban America in the twenties (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); the dilemma of embracing their past as slaves in the thirties (The Piano Lesson);...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Attica: Demanding improvments in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
13) Barber Shop
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Calvin never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. One morning he decides to sell the shop to Lester. Calvin spends the day cutting heads at the shop, and starts to understand the importance of the legacy left to him. Calvin learns to appreciate his barber friends, and discovers that the place where they work is more than just a place to get a haircut. Calvin gradually changes his mind about selling the...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
The story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers.
"This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some...
15) Good Burger 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Dexter is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back. With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but unfortunately puts the fate of Good Burger at risk once again." --publisher's website.
16) The Human Stain
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Description
Jason has always had it together. He's educated and financially stable with no baby mama drama. When he broke off his longtime relationship, he got caught up in the bachelor lifestyle, not realizing life was passing him by. One by one, his friends start settling down, leaving Jason the odd man out. He now feels pressure to catch up and finds himself in awkward dating encounters with women. Through it all, his friends are there to help him along the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
19) Sidney Poitier
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The nutty professor I: An overweight chemist creates a potion to make him the lean and charming self-centered Buddy Love.
The nutty professor II: Professor Klump finds romance with a lovely fellow geneticist. When his alter ego Buddy Love breaks out and threatens trouble, its up to the rest of the hefty Klump family to save the day.
Bowfinger: With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director...
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