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SPOTLIGHT ON........Adult Audiovisuals
 

Celebrate Black History Month with these recommended titles by, for and about African Americans.

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Jack Baxter's Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X

El-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Urban Swami, 2005)
Shelf Number: 305.896/M243j/VIDEO/DISC

A powerful documentary 10 years in the making. Witnesses and close associates of Malcolm X discuss whom they believe to be behind the killing on that fateful day in 1965.

The Soul of a Butterfly

Ali, Muhammad (Simon & Schuster Audio, c2004)
Shelf Number: 796.83/AL398so/COMPACT/DISC

Muhammad Ali's spiritual memoir from his childhood to his years as a boxing star, through fatherhood and into his role as a Parkinson's disease advocate and peace activist. Read by the late Ossie Davis.

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

(Florentine Films /Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004)
Shelf Number: 796.83092/J67u/VIDEO/DISC

Ken Burns' award-winning film based on Geoffrey Ward's award-winning book. Presents the life of the first black heavyweight boxing champion, whose flamboyant personality and defiance of racial stereotypes in the early twentieth century made him the object of public outrage and a target of law enforcement officials.