blacks

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blacks

One round moon and a star for me

1994
A young African boy needs reassurance that his father is still his papa too, when a new baby is born into the family.

The cay

1970
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

The cay

1990
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

The dove

1993
A visiting dove provides the answer to Grandmother Maloko's financial problems when floodwaters destroy her crops and she must rely on the sale of her homemade jewelry.

Coconut mon

1995
The coconut man sells his ten coconuts one by one.

Gregory Cool

1994
When he goes to visit his grandparents and his cousin, Lennox, on the island of Tobago, Gregory misses home at first, but as he gets to know both the island ways and his relatives, Gregory begins to enjoy himself.

Hakeem Olajuwon

the dream
1994
A biography of the NBA center who came from Nigeria to the University of Houston and has achieved success in profession basketball.

Toussaint L'Ouverture, lover of liberty

1994
A biography of the eighteenth-century slave who led his people in the struggle for an independent Haiti and became its ruler in 1799.

Patrick Ewing

center of attention
1994
Discusses the basketball career of Jamaican born Patrick Ewing of the New York Knickerbockers.

Africa brothers and sisters

1993
At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game: a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse.

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