African American Memoirs

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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Randall Woodfin, Edward T. Bowser
    • Narrated by: Randall Woodfin
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • Mayor Randall Woodfin draws upon the street wisdom of his generation's Southern rap music; the power of family, friends, and faith; and his education at the historically Black Morehouse College to preach the progress every corner of our nation clamors for right now.

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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Sasha Bonét
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • A sharp, tender, sweeping history of three single Black mothers—the author’s grandmother, mother, and the author herself—The Waterbearers is interwoven with the stories of the Black women they saw on the screen and heard on the radio every day.

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    • Written by: Mercury Studios, Treefort Media
    • Narrated by: Lonnie Ali, John Ramsey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2025-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Muhammad Ali, never afraid to express himself loudly and boldly, stays true to form in Ali in Me, an eight-part audio series that explores his life and legacy, guided by his own words through never-before-heard audio recordings.

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    • A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
    • Written by: Tara Roberts
    • Narrated by: Tara Roberts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2025-01-28
    • Language: English
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    • This searing memoir by a National Geographic explorer recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean—and find her place in the world.

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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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    • A Story of Race and Inheritance
    • Written by: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father has been killed in a car accident....

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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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    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Written by: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2016-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

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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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    • 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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    • An American Controversy
    • Written by: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-16
    • Language: English
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    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • Written by: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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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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    • The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
    • Written by: Jeremy Beer
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • Written by: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • Written by: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2006-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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