African American Biography

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    • An Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): John Edgar Wideman
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 8 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.

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    • 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
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    • 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....

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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"....

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    • Why Jesse Jackson Matters
    • Auteur(s): David Masciotra, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Vaughn Johseph
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America’s current political climate. David Masciotra argues that Jackson’s legacy must be rehabilitated in the history of American politics....

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    • An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Larry Eugene
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • James Page spent the majority of his life enslaved - during which time he experienced the death of his free father, witnessed his mother and brother being sold on the auction block, and was forcibly moved 700 miles south from Richmond, Virginia, to Tallahassee, Florida, by his enslaver....

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    • Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
    • Auteur(s): Gayle Jessup White
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved....

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    • 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

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    • Auteur(s): Teri Kanefield
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Série: The Making of America, Livre 6
    • Durée: 4 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • When Thurgood Marshall - the great-grandson of a slave - was born, African Americans were denied equal rights in America. Segregation was legal. Lynching was common. In some places, African Americans were entirely excluded from public life....

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    • Who Was?
    • Auteur(s): Ellen Labrecque, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): Reginald James
    • Série: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shaquille O'Neal discovered his love of basketball while spending time in an afterschool program called the Boys & Girls Club of America. Standing over six feet tall by the time he turned 11 years old, Shaq—as he is affectionately known—continued to practice the game....

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    • My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
    • Auteur(s): Tamara Lanier
    • Narrateur(s): Shonrael Lanier
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • One woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors' history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard University.

    Prix courant: 26,22 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Keeonna Harris
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Activist and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris shares a powerful exploration of self-resilience, family, and community.

    Prix courant: 25,63 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Family Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Omo Moses
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Free
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses shares a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family.

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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
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    • 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.

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • Auteur(s): Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrateur(s): Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

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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
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    • 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....

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    • How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
    • Auteur(s): Robert H. Mayer, Leslie-Burl McLemore - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder....

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    • Auteur(s): Vera Pigee, Françoise N. Hamlin - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924-2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma County's NAACP....

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    • 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
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    • 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.

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • Auteur(s): Marcie Alvis Walker
    • Narrateur(s): Marcie Alvis Walker
    • Durée: 8 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Creator of Black Coffee with White Friends Marcie Alvis Walker invites listeners into a dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we’ve inherited....

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