African American Health

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    • Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
    • By: Herbert C. Covey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War....

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    • A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions
    • By: Lucretia VanDyke
    • Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Discover the roots of modern-day herbal remedies, plant medicine, holistic rituals, natural recipes, and more that were created by African American herbal healers throughout history....

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    • By: Barbara Peacock
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these disciplines are woven into the African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community....

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • By: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • A Guide to African American Wellness
    • By: Michelle A. Gourdine M.D.
    • Narrated by: Kerri Parr
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans"....

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    • How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
    • By: Marita Golden
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Black women face a hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know that you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, that your value is consistently questioned, and that even being "twice as good" is often not good enough....

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    • Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
    • By: Dána-Ain Davis
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth....

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    • Ancient Tribal Remedies, African American Herbalism, Black Medicine and Other Ancestral Cures to Revive Your Divine Feminine Energy by Healing the Body and Soul
    • By: Nya Love
    • Narrated by: J.D. Watley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Step into a world of ancient wisdom and mystical practices, where the secrets of self-transformation and holistic wellness await your discovery....

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    • The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
    • By: Alondra Nelson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care....

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    • Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
    • By: Courtney B. Vance, Dr. Robin L. Smith
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Dr. Robin L. Smith
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • An award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling offer provide a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly.

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    • It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
    • By: Terrie M. Williams
    • Narrated by: Madeline McCray
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Terrie had made it: She had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief....

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    • A Practical Guide to Healing with Rituals, Plants and Ancestral Spells
    • By: Sofia Visconti
    • Narrated by: Greer Gray
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dive into an enchanting world where the magic of nature meets the wisdom of ancestors!

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,246 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
    • By: Laurie Kaye Abraham, David A. Ansell MD - foreword
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 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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    • Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism - and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities....

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    • 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
    • By: Oludara Adeeyo
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Prioritize your well-being with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,680 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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