African American Biography

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    • 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
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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Ruby Bridges
    • Narrateur(s): Ruby Bridges
    • Durée: 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges - who, at the age of 6, was the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary school in New Orleans - shares her story and offers a powerful call to action....

    Prix courant: 9,43$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 9,43$ ou 1 crédit

    • On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It
    • Auteur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Narrateur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the 18 African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
    • Auteur(s): Justine van der Leun
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 19 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The 26-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid....

    Prix courant: 27,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
    • Auteur(s): Robert H. Mayer, Leslie-Burl McLemore - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Raising Resilient Children
    • Auteur(s): James Gillespie Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Caleb Fields
    • Durée: 3 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The book details an African American mother's rise from the poverty of being orphaned at age 4 with 15 siblings, the lessons her struggles and rise taught her children, and her approach to single motherhood and parenting....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    • Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
    • Auteur(s): Taiyon J. Coleman
    • Narrateur(s): Keyonni James
    • Durée: 5 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
    • Auteur(s): Rochelle Riley - editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 4 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a chorus of evidence that the burden is real...

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity
    • Auteur(s): LaTonya Summers
    • Narrateur(s): LaTonya Summers
    • Durée: 4 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • LaTonya Summers was only six years old the first time she unconsciously tried to be "more white". Recollecting experiences from her childhood through to her life today, LaTonya examines how her perception of self was affected by internalized racism and led her to adopt white norms....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Sheroes, Boundary Breakers, and Females Who Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): M.J. Fievre, Becca Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Julienne Irons
    • Durée: 4 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Driven by female empowerment, this collection of biographies tells the unique stories of strong voices that made a difference. From artists to activists, The Book of Awesome Black Women showcases a plethora of passions and skills to prove that strong is beautiful....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens
    • Auteur(s): M.J. Fievre
    • Narrateur(s): L. Malaika Cooper
    • Durée: 4 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-31
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. In this affirmations audiobook created for Black girls, M. J. Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): John Edgar Wideman
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 8 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.

    Prix courant: 24,34$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Morton
    • Durée: 4 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
    • Auteur(s): C. Nicole Mason
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Eller
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
    • Auteur(s): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Allen
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In On the Shoulders of Giants, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites readers on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • Auteur(s): Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley’s music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Calvin Newborn.

    Prix courant: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
    • Auteur(s): Katherine C. Mooney
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
    • Auteur(s): Kerri K. Greenidge
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 15 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized Black working-class citizens....

    Prix courant: 44,48$ ou 1 crédit

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