African American Nonfiction

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    • Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
    • Written by: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them....

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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
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    • 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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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • Written by: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • Written by: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-16
    • Language: English
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    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • Written by: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2014-08-28
    • Language: English
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    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

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    • Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker
    • Written by: Emmanuel Acho
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times best seller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young listeners edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation....

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    • Written by: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-10
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • The Story of Bayard Rustin
    • Written by: Larry Dane Brimner
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 49 mins
    • Release date: 2013-12-06
    • Language: English
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    • You may never have heard of him, but you've probably heard of the many people civil rights activist Bayard Rustin influenced....

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    • How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
    • Written by: Shelley Tougas
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957....

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    • How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-04
    • Language: English
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    • In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors....

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    • The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
    • Written by: Chris Crowe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Addams Award-winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the civil rights movement....

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    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • Written by: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

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    • Written by: Jackie Torrence
    • Narrated by: Jackie Torrence
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 2000-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • One of America's favorite African-American storytellers remembers her childhood in tender, unforgettable new stories....

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