new york

A mute extraterrestrial who resembles an African-American flees slavery on a distant planet and crash lands in New York City. While trying to avoid capture by the alien bounty hunters, he makes new friends among the earthling residents of Harlem with his gentle manner and telepathic abilities, and uses his super-powers help to bring down a drug lord.

A documentary film about Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras, an inner-city music teacher who instructs children on how to play the violin.

Features discussion of African-American writers and musicians associated with 1920s-era Harlem and includes footage of such artists as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Cab Calloway.

Contains three stories about women coping with the hardships of living in the ghetto, including twenty-four-year-old twins Sugar and Candy Cane who have a love-hate relationship; Tamara and Tamia, daughters of a gangster, whose lives are threatened by a family secret; and twins Paris and Porsha who take it upon themselves to avenge the death of their sister.

Angel, Cream, and Sydni, three Brooklyn women who are familiar with life on the streets, learn lessons about love, money, and what it means to stand on their own.

Contains three stories about women coping with the hardships of living in the ghetto, including Lyric Chrenshaw, who relies on her looks to get what she wants, Juicy Brown, a welfare recipient trying to deal with a scandalous rumor, and Precious Paine, a hustler who has to choose between her business and a man.

After getting pregnant Keyshia is sent to live with her aunt in New York City, but an act of violence sends Keyshia to seek out street life; and after meeting Clyde, who comes from a troubled home, they work together to pay back a huge sum of money to a Harlem crime boss.

Presents a comprehensive history of slavery in New York prior to and during the American Revolution, and examines their relationship to the city's economic and social growth.

Looks at the week of September 11-17, 2001, as a key moment in the history of digital photographs and electronic newsgathering, sharing the stories behind pictures of the attacks on New York's World Trade Center and their aftermath, analyzing specific photographs, and discussing how the images shaped people's understanding of the week's events, helping them mourn, connect, communicate, respond, and remember.

Silver Jones longs for an education, thinking it is the only way she will escape the mean streets, but her dreams of college are put on hold by her affair with Chance, a powerful drug overlord who wants to leave the streets behind and start a new life.