African American Biography

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    • 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

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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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    • Evolution of a Game
    • Auteur(s): Michael Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 11 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Ilyon Woo
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 12 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ 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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    • 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): Booker T. Washington
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Waterman
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 évaluations
    • Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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: 10,67$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 10,67$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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    • 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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    • A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
    • Durée: 22 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates' prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King Jr.....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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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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    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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    • 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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    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • Auteur(s): Gilbert King
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Francis James
    • Durée: 17 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

    Prix courant: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

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    • Auteur(s): Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness....

    Prix courant: 20,80$ ou 1 crédit

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