African American Biography

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    • The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
    • Auteur(s): Drs. Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president.

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Literary Life
    • Auteur(s): Trudier Harris
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 5 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Edward Littlejohn, Peter J. Hammer
    • Narrateur(s): Beresford Bennett
    • Durée: 14 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The stories of Black lawyers and judges are rarely told. By sharing George W. Crockett Jr.'s life of principled courage, "No Equal Justice" breaks this silence....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
    • Auteur(s): Barbara D. Savage
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world"....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
    • Auteur(s): Gene Andrew Jarrett
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 20 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Auteur(s): Brad Meltzer
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles, Various
    • Série: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Durée: 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Each book in the series focuses on a particular character trait that made that role model heroic. For example, Rosa Parks dared to stand up for herself and other African Americans by staying seated, and helped end public bus segregation and launch the country’s Civil Rights Movement....

    Prix courant: 5,96$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 5,96$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race, Life and Language
    • Auteur(s): John Russell Rickford
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 7 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers.

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
    • Auteur(s): Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
    • Narrateur(s): Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
    • Durée: 7 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality
    • Auteur(s): Michael Burlingame
    • Narrateur(s): Tony Isabella
    • Durée: 9 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In a little-noted eulogy delivered after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men." ....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson
    • Auteur(s): Susan Goldman Rubin
    • Narrateur(s): James Shippy
    • Durée: 5 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Acclaimed nonfiction writer Susan Goldman Rubin conducted extensive research, visiting key Robeson sites and working with noted Robeson scholars, to bring to life one of the most important voices in American history....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
    • Auteur(s): Dionne Ford
    • Narrateur(s): Dionne Ford
    • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal....

    Prix courant: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • Inspirational Portraits of America's Black Leaders
    • Auteur(s): Dick Russell
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Kenerly
    • Durée: 20 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The findings from wide-ranging interviews and careful historical research, Black Genius explores the roots of Black achievement in America....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

    • From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
    • Auteur(s): Gail Lumet Buckley
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 11 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
    • Auteur(s): Thomas E. Simmons
    • Narrateur(s): DeMario Clarke
    • Durée: 10 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • The First African American Explorer of the South
    • Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An African slave named Esteban emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
    • Auteur(s): Terrie M. Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Madeline McCray
    • Durée: 14 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Terrie had made it: She had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Lakita Wilson, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Murray
    • Série: What-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the number one New York Times best-selling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a movement that advocates for nonviolent civil disobedience and protests against police brutality against Black people....

    Prix courant: 8,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Ruby Bridges
    • Narrateur(s): Ruby Bridges
    • Durée: 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges - who, at the age of 6, was the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary school in New Orleans - shares her story and offers a powerful call to action....

    Prix courant: 9,43$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 9,43$ ou 1 crédit

    • On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It
    • Auteur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Narrateur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit