Black Lives in Archives

101 Ways to Know-- It's Time to Leave Your Mama's House

by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Kenan Ivory Wayans

Publication Date: 2009

No Place to Be Somebody: A Black Black Comedy

by Charles Gordone

Publication Date: 1968 

Family Dream

by Roger L. Simon and Lonne Elder III

Publication Date: 1979

Screenplay is based on an original story by Richard Pryor 

Sinbad’s Guide to Life: Because I Know Everything

 by Sinbad with David Ritz

Publication Date: 1997

Book

 by Whoopi Goldberg

Publication Date: 1997

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (film poster,1988)

From the African Americans in Film Collection, 1919-2000