African American Biography

Liste de produits
    • Made in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson, Pharrell - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson, Nick Cannon
    • Durée: 5 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Jay-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove....

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

    • Auteur(s): Richard Wright
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Francis James
    • Durée: 15 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant record of struggle and endurance - a seminal literary work....

    Prix courant: 34,95 $

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
    • Narrateur(s): Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
    • Durée: 16 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 94 évaluations
    • At last, Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer Cicely Tyson tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career....

    Prix courant: 34,95 $

    • A Black Woman's Story
    • Auteur(s): Elaine Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Elaine Brown
    • Durée: 17 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • 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 $

    • A Biography of Thomas Sowell
    • Auteur(s): Jason L. Riley
    • Narrateur(s): Brad Sanders
    • Durée: 7 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • In the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative social theorists, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • Auteur(s): Claude Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
    • Durée: 17 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time - the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature....

    Prix courant: 23,18 $

  • Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • John Lewis and the Power of Hope
    • Auteur(s): Jon Meacham, John Lewis - afterword
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson, Jon Meacham
    • Durée: 10 h
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime US congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
    • Auteur(s): Sheila Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Sheila Johnson
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life.

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

  • Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • Auteur(s): Adam Makos
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
    • Durée: 14 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • Auteur(s): Stephon Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 7 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

    Prix courant: 31,16 $

    • How to Be True to You
    • Auteur(s): A'ja Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): A'ja Wilson
    • Durée: 3 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Dear Black Girls is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today—and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere....

    Prix courant: 11,26 $

    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • Auteur(s): Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrateur(s): L. Steven Taylor
    • Durée: 8 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America
    • Auteur(s): Tonya Bolden
    • Narrateur(s): uncredited
    • Durée: 2 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life....

    Prix courant: 28,67 $

    • The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
    • Auteur(s): Doris Payne, Zelda Lockhart - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 6 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief - a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path....

    Prix courant: 24,46 $

    • Portraits of a Life
    • Auteur(s): Billy Dee Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Billy Dee Williams
    • Durée: 11 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • Auteur(s): A'Lelia Bundles
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 1 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever....

    Prix courant: 10,01 $

    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 45 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

    Prix courant: 44,54 $