Grambling's White Tiger
A young white goes to a historically-black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback. There he encounters considerable resentment and learns what it's like to be in the minority.
Georg Stanford Brown
Casts & Crew
Caitlyn Jenner
Dennis Haysbert
Bill Overton
Deborah Pratt
Byron Stewart
Raymond Vitte
LeVar Burton
Harry Belafonte
Vance Davis
Also Directed by Georg Stanford Brown
Making good on a promise he made to his dying wife, a widower (Jones) opens a reading room, a place where people can learn to read. Despite his goodwill, problems in the neighborhood threaten his establishment.
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Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas.
Medical drama that aired on ABC from September 22, 1983 to December 8, 1983.