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The story of Noni, the music world's latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures of fame have Noni on the edge - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance.
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Columbia Pike - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA BOYZN
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DVD DRAMA BOYZN
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For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
3) Clemency
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA CLEME
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DVD DRAMA CLEME
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Columbia Pike - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA CLEME
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DVD DRAMA CLEME
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As she prepares to execute another inmate, prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Female Lead at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**.
4) Cooley High
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Set in 1960s, a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects.
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Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.
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A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
7) Dope
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Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
8) Eve's bayou
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Eve's family seems perfect until she catches her doctor father more than just examining one of his patients and Eve's tormented by the family secrets that come out.
9) Fences
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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Columbia Pike - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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Westover - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to...
11) Get out
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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DVD DRAMA GETOU
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Cherrydale - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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DVD DRAMA GETOU
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Glencarlyn - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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DVD DRAMA GETOU
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A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
12) Girls trip
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD COMEDY GIRLS
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DVD COMEDY GIRLS
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD COMEDY GIRLS
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DVD COMEDY GIRLS
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When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there2s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
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"Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds"--Container.
14) The hate U give
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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DVD DRAMA HATEU
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Glencarlyn - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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DVD DRAMA HATEU
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Westover - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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DVD DRAMA HATEU
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Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD COMEDY HOLLY
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DVD COMEDY HOLLY
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD COMEDY HOLLY
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DVD COMEDY HOLLY
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A satire on the ups and downs of being a black actor in Hollywood. Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams.
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS IAMNO
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DVD DOCS IAMNO
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Columbia Pike - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS IAMNO
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DVD DOCS IAMNO
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An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the...
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA IFBEA
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DVD DRAMA IFBEA
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA IFBEA
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DVD DRAMA IFBEA
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A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
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Set in 1920s Kansas, the film traces one year in the life of young Newt, in which he learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and his own capacity for honor.
19) Little Woods
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Ollie is barely getting by in an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb, who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex.
20) Losing ground
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"Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand 'ecstasy' just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy"--Container.