African American Biography

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    • Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America
    • Auteur(s): Tonya Bolden
    • Narrateur(s): uncredited
    • Durée: 2 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life....

    Prix courant: 28,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
    • Auteur(s): Ann Bausum
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Allen
    • Durée: 2 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors....

    Prix courant: 13,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
    • Auteur(s): Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 12 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 6 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Adventures in Boyhood
    • Auteur(s): Jay Ellis
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Ellis
    • Durée: 7 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A testament to the importance of imagination, trusting oneself, and making space for your creativity, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)? is a memoir of a '90s kid who confided in his imaginary sidekick to navigate everything.

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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 Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
    • Auteur(s): Jules Archer
    • Narrateur(s): Roscoe Orman
    • Durée: 8 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Listen to learn more....

    Prix courant: 26,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
    • Auteur(s): Paul Youngquist
    • Narrateur(s): Flynn Earl Jones
    • Durée: 10 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
    • Auteur(s): Gregory Pardlo
    • Narrateur(s): Gregory Pardlo
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Denise Dennis
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 1 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
    • Auteur(s): Katherine Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Heather Alicia Simms
    • Durée: 5 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11....

    Prix courant: 18,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ruby Bridges
    • Narrateur(s): Ruby Bridges, Ron Butler, Robin Miles
    • Durée: 2 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event....

    Prix courant: 14,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer
    • Auteur(s): Chad Sanders
    • Narrateur(s): Chad Sanders
    • Durée: 5 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art, How to Sell Out explores the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America.

    Prix courant: 18,32$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham
    • Auteur(s): David Falkner
    • Narrateur(s): Richard M. Davidson
    • Durée: 15 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • David Falkner, noted author of five previous books about baseball, deftly portrays the rise to stardom of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play on a major-league team in baseball’s modern era....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights
    • Auteur(s): Anne Bausum
    • Narrateur(s): Cecelia Riddett
    • Durée: 1 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This Robert F. Silbert Honor Book is a stunning testament to the struggle for social progress despite deeply entrenched racism in the American South....

    Prix courant: 19,41$ 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

    Prix réduit: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit