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Vintage clips of great jazz artists.

In a poor African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, once-aspiring poet Johnny Williams (James Earl Jones) takes a low-paying job as a house painter in order to support his family. Already struggling to make ends meet, Williams -- who rests his hopes on his son Jeff (Glynn Turman), an Air Force lieutenant -- grows more despondent when he learns his wife, Mattie (Cicely Tyson), has terminal canc

After a successful baseball career in college and as a coach in the military, Jackie Robinson (playing himself) attracts the attention of Major League Baseball's Branch Rickey (Minor Watson). Rickey wants Robinson to play in the minor leagues, believing he can become the first player to break the color barrier and play in the majors. The only catch: He is forbidden from defending himself against r

As a teenager, African-American Joe Louis (Coley Wallace) gives up on the violin to try his hand at boxing. A few years later, he' s the 1934 Golden Gloves champion. He goes pro, trains with Chappie Blackburn (James Edwards), and enjoys an unprecedented string of victories. But Louis faces more than just tough opponents in the ring. Prejudice follows him throughout his career, and his bouts with G

A boy has to give up his life to effect change.

Virgil's cousin is the prime suspect in a robbery-murder, complicating Virgil's attempts to reconcile his aunt with the family.

Gillespie must stop a hired bounty hunter who plans to kill a Sparta man wanted for questioning in a Houston murder.

A local reporter (Judith Robinson) writes an article on an unconsenting Chief Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor), who suspects her motives. With Howard Rollins and Alan Autry.

An accident related to moonshine whiskey blinds a high-school football star and kills his girlfriend.

Record-industry mobsters make an executive (Harvey Keitel) push a boring family trio instead of Earth, Wind & Fire.

Men who return home from the Civil War with hopes of rebuilding their lives find death and destruction.

A former slave and soldier (Muhammad Ali) becomes a U.S. senator from South Carolina after the Civil War.

CC Music Factory; comic Gerald Kelly.

Bebe and CeCe Winans; comic Michael Winslow; Martin Lawrence.

Music: El DeBarge. Comedy: Sheryl Underwood. Classic clip: Paula Abdul ("Straight Up"). Also, kids' amateur night.

Stephanie Mills; Phoebe Snow; Yaphet Kotto; comic Mike B.

Jamie Foxx ("Experiment"); Reginald VelJohnson; comic Kim Coles.

A turf war erupts in a futuristic, anarchistic Europe between rival crime families supplying weapons.