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Who Killed Tupac? [digital video].

Sklaver, Jason, film director.

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2017

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Lorraine Hansberry [digital video] : sighted eyes, feeling heart.

Strain, Tracy Heather, film director.

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2017

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A burst of light : and other essays

Lorde, Audre, author.

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2017

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814.54 LOR

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Chasing space : young readers' edition

Melvin, Leland, 1964- author.

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2017

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629.45 MEL

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Little leaders : bold women in black history

Harrison, Vashti, author, illustrator.

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2017

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920.72089 HAR

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Ruby tête haute

Cohen-Janca, Irène, 1954-

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2017

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379.263 COH

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He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty

Bass, S. Jonathan, author.

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2017

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305.8009761 BAS

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Guidebook to relative strangers : journeys into race, motherhood, and history

Dungy, Camille T., 1972- author.

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2017

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813.6 DUN

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The autobiography of Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane, 1980- author.

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2017

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927.8242 GUC

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A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city

Philp, Drew, author.

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2017

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307.3416 PHI

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Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war

Brennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James) author.

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2017

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Rising star : the making of Barack Obama

Garrow, David J., 1953- author.

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2017

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Dolezal, Rachel, 1977-

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Dungy, Camille T., 1972- -- Family.

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Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Juvenile literature.

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Generation Y -- Biography.

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Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.

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Hip-hop.

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Judge, Oney.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

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Martin, Trayvon, 1995-2012.

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Passing (Identity) -- United States.

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Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.

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Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

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