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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
"Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Ray and Iris Finch are white American expatriates in Botswana. A school principal and Milton scholar, Ray is also a contract agent for the CIA. But Ray's new boss doesn't want to see the gorgeous reports into which Finch has channeled all the talent and ambition that might otherwise have gone into poetry.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Appears on list
Description
"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black AmericansWhen Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
7) The pact
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Three young black men from Newark made a pact, they promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Pub. Date
c [2008]
Description
This 4-disc collection features all 24 episodes from the first season of one of the most successful sitcoms of all time, featuring Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, OB-GYN, and Phylicia Rashad as his attorney wife, Clair, and the challenges this dual-profession couple faced raising a family.
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