African American Biography

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    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
    • Auteur(s): Maria Smilios
    • Narrateur(s): Gina Daniels
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Rap Story
    • Auteur(s): Talib Kweli
    • Narrateur(s): Talib Kweli
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip hop more inspiring than their textbooks....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Name, Two Fates
    • Auteur(s): Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
    • Narrateur(s): Wes Moore
    • Durée: 6 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • From the governor of Maryland, the true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Mia Ellis
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

    Prix courant: 38,57$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Readings from the Wreck
    • Auteur(s): Dionne Brand
    • Narrateur(s): Dionne Brand
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of non-fiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck of empire.

    Prix courant: 30,86$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,86$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Spiritual Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): Sidney Poitier
    • Narrateur(s): Sidney Poitier
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career....

    Prix courant: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Prison Letters of George Jackson
    • Auteur(s): George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Jackson Jr.
    • Durée: 11 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Biography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson
    • Auteur(s): Dolores Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Clay
    • Durée: 1 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Matthew Henson’s destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary, in 1887....

    Prix courant: 12,03$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): John Howard Griffin
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Childs
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 évaluations
    • Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • Auteur(s): Shane White
    • Narrateur(s): John Lee
    • Durée: 12 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Anne Moody
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 15 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Durée: 3 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Yates
    • Narrateur(s): Roslyn Ruff
    • Durée: 3 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Amos Fortune was only 15 years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction....

    Prix courant: 28,23$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,23$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Kiese Laymon
    • Narrateur(s): Kiese Laymon
    • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A provocative, lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first Black president and first Black presidency....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • Auteur(s): Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrateur(s): Daphne Kouma
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Tyler Perry
    • Narrateur(s): Tyler Perry
    • Durée: 4 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....

    Prix courant: 16,32$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,32$ ou 1 crédit