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Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War

Reviews the many dimensions of the basketball player's life and career, from childhood to marriage and fatherhood, from high-school sports to Chicago Bulls fame

Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...

The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon dog, Sounder, to try to put food on the table. But even with the little they bring back, there is still never enough for the family to eat. When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy’s father away in handcuffs....

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.