Lynne Thigpen

Nine men from Ruby Oklahoma, in defense of the one all-black town worth the pain, assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void out there where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose.

"Bear lives in a Big Blue House with several of his muppet friends....Every day bear uses his reassuringly shaggy presence to help solve problems and explore a different topic of the day..."--Internet Movie Data Base. "As Different as Day and Night. It's a day of opposites....Bear and his friends are discovering all the colorful fun that opposites bring."--Back Cover. "Bats are People Too. By befriending a little bat named Benny, the gang discovers...

Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110.

Child psychiatrist Robert Coles investigates children's moral development via case studies of eight children and their families. Later in the program, Coles leads a group discussion with parents and teachers in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical based on the Gospel of St. Matthew, set in contemporary New York City.

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.