African American Biography

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    • Written by: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Noah Waterman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2001-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

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    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • Written by: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • Written by: John Howard Griffin
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2003-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Four Speeches
    • Written by: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • Written by: Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • Written by: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • Written by: Walter Rodney
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean....

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • Written by: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • As Told to Alex Haley
    • Written by: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
    • Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 414 ratings
    • In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....

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    • Written by: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native....

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    • Written by: Solomon Northup
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2013-09-03
    • Language: English
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    • Twelve Years a Slave is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in life....

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    • The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
    • Written by: Carole Boyce Davies
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist....

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    • An American Family
    • Written by: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2008-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • Free Man
    • Written by: Elizabeth Yates
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2008-10-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The true story of At-mun, African prince, captured by slave traders and sold at auction in Massachusetts....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • Written by: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2010-10-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • Written by: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • Written by: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
    • Written by: Hans Massaquoi
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2013-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi....

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