African American Humor

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    • Stories
    • Written by: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes....

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    • Written by: Fran Ross
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2016-12-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant....

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    • Written by: George S. Schuyler
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Paul Beatty
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2015-07-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court....

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    • Written by: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen, Carra Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America....

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    • Written by: Tyler Perry
    • Narrated by: Tyler Perry
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2007-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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)....

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    • Written by: Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, Natiki Hope Pressley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Dan Freeman, the “spook who sat by the door,” is enlisted in the CIA’s elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as “Freedom Fighters” in this explosive novel....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Ishmael Reed
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Ishmael Reed's inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to suppress the spread of black culture - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the 500 greatest books of the Western canon....

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    • Adventures in Boyhood
    • Written by: Jay Ellis
    • Narrated by: Jay Ellis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-30
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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.

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    • Written by: William Melvin Kelley
    • Narrated by: Jay Smooth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child....

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    • Written by: Adam Smyer
    • Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Knucklehead we meet Marcus Hayes, a Black law student who struggles, sometimes unsuccessfully, with the impulse to confront everyday bad behavior with swift and antisocial action....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Paul Beatty
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Colson Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2009-04-28
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this coming-of-age novel, Whitehead, using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention, probes the elusive nature of identity....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: T. Geronimo Johnson
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2015-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Trisha R. Thomas
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Series: Nappily, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2009-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • When her ex starts dating a voluptuous, long-haired beauty, Venus, sporting a daring new hairstyle, is forced to question what she really wants out of life....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • Written by: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-29
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • "You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before." This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed - if you can afford it....

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