James Haskins

Discusses gambling, its various types, people who gamble, and gambling disease.

Chronicles the early twentieth-century artistic and intellectual revolution in black America.

Relates the life story of the famous choreographer who, wherever she has lived, has worked at bringing creative arts participation to the community.

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.

In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...