African American Biography

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Jason Diakité, Rachel Willson-Broyles - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Diakité
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history - from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper
    • Auteur(s): Charles Barber
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lazarre-White
    • Durée: 10 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack
    • Auteur(s): William Adler
    • Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
    • Durée: 15 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
    • Auteur(s): Anthony S. Pitch
    • Narrateur(s): Brad Sanders, Kevin Stillwell
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Solomon Northup
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s....

    Prix courant: 15,58$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Durée: 16 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Authors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of Martin Luther King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • Memories of an American Antislavery Family
    • Auteur(s): James D. Richardson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 8 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824-1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Jim Gash
    • Narrateur(s): Brandon Batchelar, Jason White
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Jim Gash's comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor nearly ensured that he and Henry, a Ugandan boy languishing in prison for two murders he didn't commit, would never meet....

    Prix courant: 32,98$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,98$ ou 1 crédit

    • Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Greenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Carolyn McDonald
    • Durée: 9 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Staking a Claim examines the life of Jake Simmons, Jr. - the international tycoon who was the most successful African American in the history of the oil industry - and affords us a rare perspective on this question....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 7 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this ambitious - even radical - literary collection, first published in 1920, civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois tackled race, gender, art, politics, labor, and economics from the perspective of an African American who, in his own words, had “been in the world, but not of it”....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America's Prophet
    • Auteur(s): D. H. Dilbeck
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 8 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation of Douglass's life through the lens of his faith....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    • Auteur(s): Yvonne Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): Pamela L. Kelly
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
    • Auteur(s): Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Carolyn M. Brown - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Randye Kaye
    • Durée: 8 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Michelle Gadsden-Williams combines her inspirational life story with pragmatic solutions to address problems facing women in corporate America, offering a professional playbook for tackling today's most pressing workplace issues....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
    • Auteur(s): Michael K. Honey
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
    • Auteur(s): Anita Hill
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 8 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she turns to the topic of home. Hill takes us inside this “crisis of home” and exposes its deep roots in race and gender inequities....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Solomon Northup
    • Narrateur(s): J D Jackson
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Born into “the blessings of liberty in a free State,” Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Bayou Boeuf region of Louisiana’s Red River Valley. Twelve Years a Slave is the chronicle of his captivity at the mercy of a sadistic plantation owner....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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