African American Memoris

Liste de produits
    • Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
    • Auteur(s): James Overmyer
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 12 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Louis Chude-Sokei
    • Narrateur(s): Louis Chude-Sokei
    • Durée: 5 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles - a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
    • Auteur(s): Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher
    • Narrateur(s): Wendell Pierce
    • Durée: 11 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
    • Auteur(s): Nelson George
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nelson George's chronicle of Motown Records' rise and fall remains a classic account of an essential American music company and its dynamic founder, Berry Gordy Jr....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
    • Auteur(s): Nadine Cohodas
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Renee Pitts
    • Durée: 15 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Nadine Cohodas's biography of the passionate, talented and difficult, but ultimately lovable, Nina Simone is an object lesson in American life....

    Prix courant: 30,54$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,54$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 41,68$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
    • Auteur(s): Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir that celebrates Black life and summons listeners to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society....

    Prix courant: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

    • Unlearning Race
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Chatterton Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Thomas Chatterton Williams
    • Durée: 4 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called Black to what is assumed to be White....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 3 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native....

    Prix courant: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Race, Music, and Family
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Bergner
    • Narrateur(s): Ryan Vincent Anderson
    • Durée: 8 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan Speedo Green's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from solitary confinement to stardom....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Sermon to White America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 5 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a White woman who asked what she could do for the cause, "Nothing." Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera
    • Auteur(s): Bill Duke
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, [and] Predator.

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Denise Dennis
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 1 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • Auteur(s): Cate Lineberry
    • Narrateur(s): J. D. Jackson
    • Durée: 8 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • From the Promised Land to Purgatory
    • Auteur(s): Arthur Lawrence Cribbs Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Salathiel Reagan
    • Durée: 3 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-12-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Journalist and author Art Cribbs tells the story of his family’s pursuit of that dream in Los Angeles County, and the racism which undermined it.

    Prix courant: 14,88$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,88$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
    • Auteur(s): Shelby Steele
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Allen
    • Durée: 3 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-01-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Steele argues that Senator Obama is caught between two classic postures that Blacks have always used to make their way in the White American mainstream....

    Prix courant: 18,51$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,51$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Durée: 30 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the prominent abolitionist during and after the Civil War. Here, Douglass provides a fuller account of his escape from slavery and the underground railway to freedom....

    Prix courant: 52,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 52,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir of a Kidnapping
    • Auteur(s): Shane McCrae
    • Narrateur(s): Shane McCrae
    • Durée: 5 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father.

    Prix courant: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit