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Explores the employee unrest that preceeded the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911 andforced the government to enact the most comprehensive workplace saftey laws in the country.

Traces the roots of the music from the Harlem Renaissance period as well as its social impact on society and its eventual acceptance into mainstream culture. Features commentary from historians and the performers themselves. Also includes classic performances from musicians such as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Nat King Cole.

Pierre Dulane is a former professional ballroom dancer who volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. At first his background clashes with his students' tastes, but together Dulane and his students create a completely new style of dance.

Documents the short career of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who became notorious for his graffiti art and went on to become an international phenomenon, featuring interviews and archival footage.

Meet Jack Stalwart. Code name: COURAGE. Jack is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent by night, thwarting evil all over the world as he searches for his missing brother, Max. An eager young scientist has brought to life a dangerous flesh-eating dinosaur by crossing its DNA with that of his pet dog, Freddie. Can Jack capture the dinosaur before it destroys New York City?.

When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

The memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising, heartbreaking, and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Working Stiff takes readers behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple, including a firsthand account of the events of September 11, the subsequent anthrax bio-terrorism attack, and the disastrous crash of American Airlines flight 587.

Memoirs of the author's childhood and youth in Puerto Rico and New York City.

An overview of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, covering the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the 1910s and 1920s and the rise of African American cultural arts, especially in New York City.