African American Biography

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    • Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
    • De: Paul Youngquist
    • Narrado por: Flynn Earl Jones
    • Duración: 10 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-12-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet....

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    • De: Gabrielle Douglas, Michelle Burford
    • Narrado por: Haleakala Wilson
    • Duración: 4 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-15-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 calificaciones
    • In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner, as well as acting as a critical member of the US gold-medal-winning women gymnastics team....

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    • America in the King Years 1965-68
    • De: Taylor Branch
    • Narrado por: Joe Morton
    • Duración: 9 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-25-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 calificaciones
    • At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy....

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    • De: Jackie Torrence
    • Narrado por: Jackie Torrence
    • Duración: 1 h
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-20-00
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 calificaciones
    • One of America's favorite African-American storytellers remembers her childhood in tender, unforgettable new stories....

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    • The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
    • De: Kerri K. Greenidge
    • Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Duración: 15 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-19-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized Black working-class citizens....

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    • A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
    • De: Donald A. Jelinek
    • Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Duración: 11 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-22-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....

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    • A Memoir
    • De: Kendrick Perkins, Seth Rogoff
    • Narrado por: JD Jackson
    • Duración: 11 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • Kendrick “Perk” Perkins is known for his blunt, opinionated, “carry the hell on” commentary on ESPN’s most popular shows. As a fourteen-year NBA player and starting center for the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics, Perk earned a reputation as an enforcer, a fierce defender, and a great teammate....

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    • De: Leila Taylor
    • Narrado por: Lachele Carl
    • Duración: 5 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-08-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 calificaciones
    • Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: Blackness and America's Gothic Soul explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery....

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    • De: Lori Wagner
    • Narrado por: Lori Wagner
    • Duración: 5 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-27-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 calificaciones
    • Willie Johnson. Granddaughter of a slave. Rejected by her father. Sold by her mother. Abused by her husband. How did a biracial woman become accepted to preach revivals in the Deep South and coast to coast during segregation and the Civil Rights movement....

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    • A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
    • De: Karolyn Smardz Frost
    • Narrado por: Karen Chilton
    • Duración: 14 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-29-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn⿿s perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom....

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    • A Biography
    • De: Elisabeth Bumiller
    • Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
    • Duración: 14 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-11-07
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 31 calificaciones
    • New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first Black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush's national security adviser on September 11, 2001....

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    • James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
    • De: Nicholas Buccola
    • Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
    • Duración: 14 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-01-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 154 calificaciones
    • A remarkable story of race and the American dream, The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a conflict that continues to haunt our politics....

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    • De: Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ
    • Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
    • Serie: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Duración: 56 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-05-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better.

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    • An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom
    • De: Jim Gash
    • Narrado por: Brandon Batchelar, Jason White
    • Duración: 10 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-26-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 166 calificaciones
    • Jim Gash's comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor nearly ensured that he and Henry, a Ugandan boy languishing in prison for two murders he didn't commit, would never meet....

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    • De: Frederick Douglass
    • Narrado por: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Duración: 22 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-23-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings...

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    • Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
    • De: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Narrado por: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Duración: 9 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-15-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 calificaciones
    • After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people.

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    • The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
    • De: Joyce King
    • Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Duración: 7 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-06-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 calificaciones
    • More than a spectacular true-crime debut, Hate Crime is a breathtaking work of reportage and a searing look at how the question of race continues to shape life in America....

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    • De: Darrin Bell
    • Narrado por: Brittany Bradford, Darrin Bell, Emyree Zazu Bell, William DeMeritt
    • Duración: 3 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-27-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are.

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