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New Releases 12 Titles Page:  1 , 2 MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE DVD, Multi-Version Professionals Edition or Home Video / House Party Edition, 2009,  closed captioned Money-Driven Medicine is the first and only film to explore the economics underlying – and undermining – America’s dysfunctional health care system and dispels the myths about what’s really driving the costs and quality of care. MORE... ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN DVD, 84 minutes, 2008,   This definitive film biography portrays Zora Neale Hurston in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original. MORE... UNNATURAL CAUSES DVD, 7 episodes: 1x56mins, 6x26mins, 2008,  dual language disc - Menus, Audio and Subtitles in English and Spanish, Spanish on the Second Audio Channel Facilitator Guide Available UNNATURAL CAUSES, for the first time on film, sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health - and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There's much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. MORE... TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH DVD, 86 minutes (with a 51 minute abridged version and extras on 1 DVD), 2008,   Facilitator Guide Available One family's painful confrontation with their ancestor's involvement with the slave trade. MORE... BLACKING UP: HIP-HOP'S REMIX OF RACE AND IDENTITY DVD, 57 minutes, 2010,   Explores tensions surrounding white participation in Hip-Hop. For some, it is an example of cultural progress. For others, it is just another case of cultural appropriation. MORE... BRICK BY BRICK: A CIVIL RIGHTS STORY DVD, 53 minutes, 2008 Facilitator Guide Available Brick by Brick Tracks the landmark case, U.S. vs Yonkers, which challenged housing and educational discrimination in the North and pushed for desegregation. MORE... FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS DVD, 67 minutes, 2007,  closed captioned New Orleans' unique Faubourg Treme is arguably the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States. It is the home of jazz and also the birthplace of civil rights in the South. MORE... HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS DVD, 57 minutes, 2009,   A compelling examination of the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. MORE... HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND DVD, 56 minutes, 2003,   Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... MADE IN L.A. (HECHO EN LOS ANGELES) DVD, 70 minutes, 2007, In Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles Facilitator Guide Available Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. MORE... Next Page:  1 , 2

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