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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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Black Detroit [DAISY talking book] : a people's history of self-determination

Boyd, Herb, 1938- author.

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2017

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Digital

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977.434044 BOY

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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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SD_ILS:710354

Ruby tête haute

Cohen-Janca, Irène, 1954-

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2017

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379.263 COH

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Chasing space : young readers' edition

Melvin, Leland, 1964- author.

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2017

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Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong, author.

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2017

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306.362 DUN

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Maya Angelou, and still I rise [DVD video]

Hercules, Bob, film director, film producer.

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Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- author.

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2017

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796.323 ABD

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

Dungy, Camille T., 1972- author.

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2017

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Higher is waiting

Perry, Tyler, author.

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2017

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277.3083 PER

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Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Juvenile literature.

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

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Passing (Identity) -- United States.

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Coltrane, John, 1926-1967. Love supreme.

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Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.

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