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Struggles in Steel: A Story of African-American Steelworkers

by Anthony Buba and Raymond Henderson

An examination of the 100-year struggle of African American steelworkers for equal rights in the mills.

Top Dog Diaries: Suzan-Lori Parks

by Oren Jacoby

Top Dog Diaries takes an inside look at the creative process and at the challenges, opportunities, and personal milestones Suzan-Lori Parks encounters over two years that lead to the production of her 2002 Pulitzer prize-winning play.

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True to the Game

by Robert Young and Sandy Kazan

Written by a 16-year-old high school student, True to the Game dramatizes the story of a teenage African American girl in New York City, torn between her life as a drug and gun dealer and her desire to become a writer.

Why Can't We Be a Family Again?

by Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel

An Academy Award-nominated cinema vérité portrait of the bond that develops between two brothers who long to be reunited with their mother, who is waging an agonizing battle with crack addiction.

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