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February 2010, issue 52

Black History Month: New Orleans

We probably overestimate the importance of professional sports in our American lives, but it is hard, in the shadow of the recent Super Bowl win for the New Orleans Saints, to underestimate the positive impact that a local team can have on a community's spirit and sense of self. 

New Orleans has always been a city with the strongest of  personalities, even in the face of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and while a Super Bowl win does not bring a city back to its feet economically and structurally, it can reinvigorate a community's pride, and lift a city's spirit.  Which is no small feat.  So in the days following the Saints first ever NFL Championship, here's a list of some titles in the BCLMC that feature that unique and complicated, great American city, New Orleans. 

The Red kimona. New York, NY: Kino International, [2008]  

Democracy now! September 2, 2008. [New York, N.Y.] Democracy Now! c2008.  

When the levees broke; a requiem in four acts. [New York, N.Y.] : HBO Video, c2006.  

A streetcar named Desire. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2006.  

Tootie's last suit. [New York]: Pomegranate Productions, [2005?]  

Jazz. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.  

Black Sunday. [Hollywood, Calif.?: Paramount Home Video], c2001.  

Jezebel. Santa Monica, CA: Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, c1997.  

Easy rider. Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1995.  

Jazz Dixieland. Venice, Calif. : Bennett Video Group, c1994.  

Pretty baby. Hollywood: Paramount, 1994, c1978.  

New Orleans queen of the Mississippi. San Ramon, CA : International Video Network, c1993.  

Highway 61. [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount Pictures, 1992.  

Wynton Marsalis, blues and swing. New York : CMV Enterprises, c1988.  

Dr. John teaches New Orleans piano. Woodstock, NY : Homespun Video, [c1988]  

The Big Easy. New York, NY: HBO Video, c1987.  

'Til the butcher cuts him down. New York, N.Y. : Rhapsody Films, c1986.  

Louis Armstrong live in '59. [United States]: Reelin' in the years productions LLC, c2006.  

Louis Armstrong. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1998], c1996.  

Satchmo Louis Armstrong.   

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