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The Library has purchased a license for the film, Yuli available on Kanopy.

About the film (from Kanopy):

YULI is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child YULI avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behavior, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.

The library has purchased the film series, Confounding Father from the streaming video database, Docuseek. 

About the series (from Docuseek):

Confounding Father:  A Contrarian View of the U.S. Constitution is a classroom friendly documentary that tells the story of the constitutional convention from the contrarian viewpoint of anti-federalists. It serves as a timely reexamination of the U.S. political system and features Luther Martin, a Maryland delegate to the 1787 constitutional convention who:

• Opposed the continuation of the slave trade and the three-fifths clause
• Feared the unlimited taxing power of the national government
• Thought many framers of the constitution were seeking an American empire
• Drank too much, talked too much, and annoyed the famous founding fathers