African American Memoirs

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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Tina Knowles
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, chronicles a life like none other. Enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering, Matriarch is a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

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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 415 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: 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 211 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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    • 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 39 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 Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
    • Written by: Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 22 hrs
    • Release date: 2022-10-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched....

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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 155 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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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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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
    • Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • At last, Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer Cicely Tyson tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career....

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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

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    • Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
    • Written by: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2015-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
    • Written by: Bill Steigerwald, Juan Williams - foreword
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2017-07-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South....

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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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    • 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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    • Evolution of a Game
    • Written by: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2006-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack....

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    • The Story of My Life
    • Written by: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.

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