Courtney B. Vance
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"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...
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61st Street volume 1
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English
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Moses Johnson is swept into a world of chaos and corrupt policing during a presumed drug sting.
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61st Street volume 7
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English
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Moses' trial begins. Brannigan testifies and a discovery threatens to derail Franklin's defense.
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61st Street volume 2
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English
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Moses makes contact with the one person who could save him. Martha chases political aspirations.
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61st Street volume 5
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English
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Moses reunites with an old acquaintance and Officer Logan gets a new position.
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61st Street volume 6
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English
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Moses fights influences in prison and begins to doubt Franklin's motives.
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61st Street volume 3
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English
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Officer Logan begins to question his own department and Brannigan presses Moses for a confession.
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61st Street volume 8
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English
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Franklin faces a setback. Moses takes the stand. A verdict is read.
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61st Street volume 4
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English
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After stumbling on evidence of police misconduct, Franklin adjusts his defense.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call...
11) Lilo & Stitch
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"When a lonely girl named Lilo adopts Stitch, a rambunctious alien 'puppy,' Stitch helps to mend Lilo's broken family--but not without wreaking hilarious havoc and mischievous fun on the Hawaiian Islands."--Container.
12) Ben is back
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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.
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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.
14) The mummy
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Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
15) Joyful noise
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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.
16) The photograph
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When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.









