African American Biography

Liste de produits
    • The Madam C. J. Walker Story
    • Auteur(s): K. S. Horne
    • Narrateur(s): Cordelia
    • Série: Black History For Kids 3-5
    • Durée: 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The first self-made woman millionaire has quite the story to tell. Can you imagine being a female self-made millionaire in the early 1900s? That was quite the accomplishment. Madam C. J. Walker did it! Learn more about how she got her start in this audiobook about her life...

    Prix courant: 4,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
    • Auteur(s): Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin, Christopher Benson
    • Durée: 15 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-08-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two White men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a White woman in a convenience store....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Zora Neale Hurston, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 2 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young listeners are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade....

    Prix courant: 17,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of a Black Theologian
    • Auteur(s): James H. Cone
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 5 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this powerful and passionate memoir, Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those - like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow - who had no voice....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tick
    • Narrateur(s): Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Durée: 19 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Brendan I. Koerner
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 10 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of WWII. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his White commanding officers, found solace in opium....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
    • Auteur(s): Bridgett M. Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Bridgett M. Davis
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A daughter's homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family - and how those sacrifices resonate over time....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Jessye Norman
    • Narrateur(s): Mia Ellis
    • Durée: 9 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women who were her role models, from her ancestors to family friends, relatives, and teachers....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
    • Auteur(s): Bell Hooks, Cornel West
    • Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
    • Durée: 8 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History
    • Auteur(s): Tricia Martineau Wagner
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 4 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A long-overdue testament to the courage and skill of Black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history....

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    • The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
    • Auteur(s): Paul Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Maya Days
    • Durée: 11 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
    • Auteur(s): Eleanor Herman, Peggielene Bartels
    • Narrateur(s): J. Karen Thomas
    • Durée: 14 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 souls on Ghana's central coast, half a world away....

    Prix courant: 41,68$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Katherine Johnson
    • Auteur(s): Joseph Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Taylor
    • Durée: 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Kendrick Perkins, Seth Rogoff
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 11 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Kendrick “Perk” Perkins is known for his blunt, opinionated, “carry the hell on” commentary on ESPN’s most popular shows. As a fourteen-year NBA player and starting center for the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics, Perk earned a reputation as an enforcer, a fierce defender, and a great teammate....

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    • 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

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    • The Power, Politics, and Passion of LeBron
    • Auteur(s): Valerie Babb
    • Narrateur(s): Valerie Babb, Sean Polite
    • Durée: 8 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a success story the nation loves; the other, the latest installment in an ongoing chronicle of American antiblackness....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Autobiography of a Great American Businessman
    • Auteur(s): John H. Johnson, Lerone Bennett Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): John H. Johnson
    • Durée: 2 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • John H. Johnson, the remarkable entrepreneur who founded the Ebony publishing empire, tells the story of his success....

    Prix courant: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit

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