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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

112 min

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Junot Díaz Talks Religion, Dominican Identity, and Writing.

Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” talks about the role of religion in the Dominican Republic and the political power of literature.

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2017
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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

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Tanya A. Christian
2021
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S.

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David Treuer
2019
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely.

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Darnell L. Moore
2024
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How Black and Latina Women Prioritized Self-Care During the Pandemic

The pandemic was rough for Black and Latina families, but many women in these communities met the challenges head on.

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Julia Yarbough
2021
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Resilience Through Indigenous Humour | Stephanie Pangowish | TEDxCentennialCollegeToronto

In this talk, Stephanie Pangowish, shares how the Indigenous community uses humor to survive colonization and continues to use it as a tool for healing.

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2020
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith.

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Phil Cushway (compiler), Michael Warr (editor)
2024
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The Wisdom of Artists: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes by BIPOC Creatives

We've been turning to wise words from artists for motivation, inspiration, and proof that with imagination and creativity, we can get through most anything.

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Paulette Beete
2020
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New Ways of Looking at Landscapes

Ansel Adams's Legacy and the Diverse Artists Building on an Icon

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Rebecca Senf
2021
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The Sustainable Soul of Hip Hop

From songs referencing grandma’s backyard garden to lyrics ripping government for destroying the water supply, many hip hop artists seamlessly weave climate justice into their sounds. After all, being sustainably savvy is how their grandparents and great-grandparents survived.

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Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
2020
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