Films with: Toussaint, Lorraine

Love beats rhymes

When struggling rapper Coco enrolls in a poetry class, she thinks her rhymes will impress her teacher, Professor Dixon. Instead, Dixon challenges Coco to seek real meaning in her lyrics, setting her on a journey of discovery that takes her through rap clubs and poetry slams, leading her to find her true voice, and true love, in this up lifting love story.

DVD 12660

Middle of nowhere

Devoted wife Ruby drops out of medical school after her husband Derek receives an eight-year prison sentence, and struggles to find the courage to remain faithful and supportive as the demands of being a prison wife weigh heavily on her shoulders.

DVD 10956

This far by faith African American spiritual journeys /

"This Far by Faith celebrates the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st Century, This Far By Faith explores the epic struggle of a people whose faith was continually tested, and how that faith became a force for social change that helped transform America socially, politically, and culturally." -- container.

DVD 2318