When 16-year-old Christina Heald needs a reality check on the importance of working hard in school, she hears her grandmother simply saying "just look out the window." Out Christina's window is Harlem, a place--like most large inner cities--plagued by drug abuse, violence, and hopelessness, and a system that can't often help those in need. Christina is one of nine Harlem youths who were handed a video camera and a notebook and asked to tell their stories: a budding architecture student, a TV soap opera star, an aspiring rap artist, and a young man coming out of jail to start a new life with his daughter, among others. These inspirational shorts are woven together by host and socio-ethnographer Terry Williams, who paints a realistic but hopeful portrait of black youth struggling towards their dreams. Recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Pitman)
Harlem Diary
(1996) 100 min. $19.95. Discovery Channel Video. PPR. Color cover. ISBN: 1-56331-396-0. Vol. 12, Issue 1
Harlem Diary
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