Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored


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In this beautifully evocative tale of life in the segregated South, the author of The Last Train North looks back at his colored childhood with deep pride, striking honesty, and unusual affection. Soon to be released as a major film from BET Pictures, directed by Tim Reid and starring Richard Roundtree and Phylicia Rashad. Photos.




Once Upon a Time when We Were Colored


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The memoirs of a black businessman of his youth in a segregated small town in rural delta-land Mississippi.




ReelViews


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The popular film critic offers full-length reviews of his choices for the best one thousand movies from the 1990s to today.




The Last Train North


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Picking up where his memoir, When We Were Colored, left off, Taulbert recounts his 1963 migration from the small segregated Mississippi town of his birth to the big integrated city of St. Louis, where opportunity was everywhere. The realities of the North sometimes fall short of his fantasies, but he never loses sight of his dreams.




Once Upon a Time when We Were Colored


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Clifton Taulbert's loving memoir of life in the colored section of a little Mississippi Delta town has won praise and stirred hearts across the nation, and was turned into a moving and memorable film. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.




Jet


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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.




The Invitation


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When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place" and surviving in the Jim Crow South.Transported back into a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert finds himself expected to cross racial barriers he would have been forbidden to cross before. The Invitation is the story of the man and the little boy inside him wrestling with a past they both know so well, while stepping into a future that is still being determined




Mississippi Scenes


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Little Cliff and the Porch People


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Little Cliff's grandmother sends him off to get a pound of butter, but all the front porches he must pass are full today--of neighbors who want to help him with his errand. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.




Between the Lines


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Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.