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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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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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Phenomenal and absolutely essential!
- By Maik B on 25-02-21
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Hellhound on His Trail
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- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Hampton Sides
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox....
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superb
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Still I Rise
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- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
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Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou, and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. This book embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled within.
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The Einstein Intersection
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A member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has trouble assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza....
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Interesting
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
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This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....
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Gripping, enlightening never to be forgotten
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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"My name is 'J' and I'm awkward - and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be....
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amazing! !!
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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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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Phenomenal and absolutely essential!
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By: Malcolm X, and others
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Hellhound on His Trail
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox....
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superb
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Still I Rise
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- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs
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Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou, and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. This book embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled within.
By: Marlene Wagman-Geller, and others
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The Einstein Intersection
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- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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A member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has trouble assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza....
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Interesting
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By: Samuel R. Delany, and others
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....
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Gripping, enlightening never to be forgotten
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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"My name is 'J' and I'm awkward - and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be....
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amazing! !!
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Escravidão, Volume 3 [Slavery, Volume 3]
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O último audiolivro da trilogia Escravidão é dedicado ao século XIX, à Independência, ao Primeiro e ao Segundo Reinados, ao movimento abolicionista, que resultou na Lei Áurea de 13 de maio de 1888, e ao legado da escravidão, que ainda hoje emperra a caminhada dos brasileiros em direção ao futuro....
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Uncut Funk
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In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex"....
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A dialogue of two voices but only one narrator
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African American Herbalism
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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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Crack
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Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling "rock" cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld....
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
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A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....
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Haunting Story
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Woke Racism
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Best-selling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the social fabric....
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WoW
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Our African Unconscious
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- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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The fossil record confirms that humanity originated in Africa. Yet somehow we have overlooked that Africa is also at the root of all that makes us human - our spirituality, civilization, arts, sciences, philosophy, and our conscious and unconscious minds....
By: Edward Bruce Bynum PhD ABPP, and others
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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In 1852, Frederick Douglass, former slave and, by then, a leading figure in the abolitionist movement was asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association to address the group for their July 4th celebration at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York....
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....
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Beautiful, harrowing, vital
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-20
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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What is feminism?
In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....
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THE BOOK IS AMAZING but Audible is missing a proper description.
- By Beatriz Maues on 13-10-20
By: bell hooks
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Love and Rage
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- Narrated by: Lama Rod Owens
- Length: 9 hrs
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In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? Lama Rod Owens explains....
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The Audacity of Hope
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- Narrated by: Barack Obama
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Winner of aGrammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, 2008.
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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Much better than its title.
- By Duncan on 10-04-08
By: Barack Obama
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My Black Country
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- By: Alice Randall
- Narrated by: Alice Randall
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music....
By: Alice Randall
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Black Meme
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- By: Legacy Russell
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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In Black Meme, Legacy Russell explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining archival and contemporary media Russell explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and death on contemporary conceptions of viral culture,
By: Legacy Russell
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Racecraft
- The Soul of Inequality in American Life
- By: Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise....
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Needs major editing
- By H. P. on 25-04-21
By: Karen E. Fields, and others
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance
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- Narrated by: Michael Scott
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When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea and sand, reggae music, cannabis, and "irie" people like Usain Bolt- people who are living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. But this book analyzes this motif....
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Poorly read but....
- By AALaAron on 15-05-23
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Ebony and Ivy
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- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy....
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The New Huey P. Newton Reader
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- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the Black liberation era....
By: Huey P. Newton, and others
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- By: Tom Burrell
- Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....
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Brilliant
- By Dunks on 10-01-23
By: Tom Burrell
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Slavery by Another Name
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- By: Douglas A. Blackmon
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....
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Truth
- By Avid reader on 09-04-23
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....
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Can we talk about the narrator
- By Mr on 17-09-19
By: David W. Blight
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Untouchable
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Beginning with his final departure from Neverland, Untouchable takes listeners through Jackson's final four years....
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Compelling and entertaining - but accurate?
- By Phil on 06-06-15
By: Randall Sullivan
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The Maroons
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- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
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The Underground Railroad is one of the most taught topics to young schoolchildren, and every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North. There were also slaves who ran and hid out, or made their own settlements, who were called maroons....
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Abolitionists Mega Collection: Thought Leaders in the Fight to End Slavery Before the Civil War
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- Length: 53 hrs and 35 mins
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Abolitionism was the movement that strove to end slavery in the United States. The abolitionists saw slavery as a stain and an affliction on the United States and made it their goal to eradicate slave ownership....
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Black American History and Crime
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- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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This unique 2-in-1 book compilation combines the impactful narratives of two essential works: Black American History and Crime in Black America. Each standalone book is a treasure trove of insights and revelations, shedding light on critical aspects of the Black experience in America. In Black American History, the listener is taken on a journey through the depths of slavery, the injustices of Jim Crow, and the pervasive effects of police misconduct.
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A Seat at the Table
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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwilling to compromise on the issues she believed in.
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Black Meme
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Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining archival and contemporary media Russell explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and death on contemporary conceptions of viral culture, borne in the age of the internet.
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Under Jackie's Shadow
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The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.
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Freeman's Challenge
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In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, “slaves of the state” were leased to private companies. The prisoners earned no wages, yet they manufactured furniture, animal harnesses, carpets, and combs, which consumers bought throughout the North. Then one young man challenged the system.
By: Robin Bernstein
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Harlem Renaissance
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- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
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When the American Civil War finally drew to an end in 1865, victory for the North seemed to herald a new beginning for African Americans. Emancipation for thousands of former slaves appeared, for the first time, to offer people the chance of full and equal participation in American society. That dream didn't last for long, particularly in the Southern states where new Jim Crow laws prevented African Americans from exercising fundamental rights, including the right to vote.
By: Hourly History
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Black American History and Crime
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This unique 2-in-1 book compilation combines the impactful narratives of two essential works: Black American History and Crime in Black America. Each standalone book is a treasure trove of insights and revelations, shedding light on critical aspects of the Black experience in America. In Black American History, the listener is taken on a journey through the depths of slavery, the injustices of Jim Crow, and the pervasive effects of police misconduct.
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A Seat at the Table
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- By: Drs. Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwilling to compromise on the issues she believed in.
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Black Meme
- A History of the Images That Make Us
- By: Legacy Russell
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
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Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining archival and contemporary media Russell explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and death on contemporary conceptions of viral culture, borne in the age of the internet.
By: Legacy Russell
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Under Jackie's Shadow
- Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
- By: Mitchell Nathanson
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The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.
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Freeman's Challenge
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In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, “slaves of the state” were leased to private companies. The prisoners earned no wages, yet they manufactured furniture, animal harnesses, carpets, and combs, which consumers bought throughout the North. Then one young man challenged the system.
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Harlem Renaissance
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When the American Civil War finally drew to an end in 1865, victory for the North seemed to herald a new beginning for African Americans. Emancipation for thousands of former slaves appeared, for the first time, to offer people the chance of full and equal participation in American society. That dream didn't last for long, particularly in the Southern states where new Jim Crow laws prevented African Americans from exercising fundamental rights, including the right to vote.
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The Swans of Harlem
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Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Here begins the story of the five extraordinary women at the heart of this book. This is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer could be.
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Imagination
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Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison's instruction: "Dream a little before you think."
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George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and enduring ways.
By: Tracy Daugherty
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Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope
- New Essays on the Work of Cornel West
- By: Barbara Will - editor
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture-even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century.
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Reluctant Race Men
- Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America
- By: Joan L. Bryant
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges Black American reformers lodged against race across the long nineteenth century. It factors their opposition into the nation's history of race and reconstructs a reform tradition largely ignored in accounts of Black activism. Black-controlled newspapers, societies, churches, and conventions provided the principal loci and resources for questioning race. In these contexts, people of African descent generated a lexicon for refuting race, debated its logic, and, ultimately, reinterpreted it.
By: Joan L. Bryant
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Walter Baron
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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"Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass" is a pivotal collection showcasing Frederick Douglass's eloquence, determination, and leadership in advocating for the abolition of slavery and civil rights.
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Blue-Coated Terror
- Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
- By: Jeffrey S. Adler
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.
By: Jeffrey S. Adler
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Dear Bi Men
- A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure
- By: J.R. Yussuf, Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Narrated by: J.R. Yussuf
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers Blackness in a practical and deeply researched guide to navigating life, work, and relationships as a Black bi+ man.
By: J.R. Yussuf, and others
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- By: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
By: El Jones
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My Black Country
- A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
- By: Alice Randall
- Narrated by: Alice Randall
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity.
By: Alice Randall
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.
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By: James Baldwin