African American Biography

Liste de produits
    • The Story of Katherine Johnson
    • Auteur(s): Joseph Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Taylor
    • Durée: 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Did you know that NASA uses mathematics for space travel? Meet Katherine Johnson, one of the first African-American and female mathematicians who worked for NASA.

    Prix courant: 1,43 $

    • Botanist and Inventor
    • Auteur(s): Mary Boone
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • George Washington Carver wasn't just an inventor. He was also a botanist, a farmer, and a professor. Young listeners will discover how this teacher not only improved the way people farmed, but introduced the world to more than 300 uses for the peanut....

    Prix courant: 3,06 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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
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    • 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 $

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    • 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 $

  • Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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 $

    • The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • Auteur(s): Hampton Sides
    • Narrateur(s): Hampton Sides
    • Durée: 15 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
    • Auteur(s): Larry Tye
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
    • Durée: 16 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • 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 $