African American Memoirs

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    • By: Mercury Studios, Treefort Media
    • Narrated by: Lonnie Ali, John Ramsey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Muhammad Ali, never afraid to express himself loudly and boldly, stays true to form in Ali in Me, an eight-part audio series that explores his life and legacy, guided by his own words through never-before-heard audio recordings.

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    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • By: Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise.

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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 Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
    • By: Thomas E. Simmons
    • Narrated by: DeMario Clarke
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
    • Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 190 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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    • How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
    • By: Anthony S. Pitch
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders, Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims....

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    • The Inspiring Story of a Black Cyclist and the Men Who Helped Him Achieve Worldwide Fame
    • By: Conrad Kerber, Terry Kerber
    • Narrated by: Barrie Buckner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the wake of the Tour de France’s fallen heroes, the story of one of history’s most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote....

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    • An American Controversy
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    • By: Kevin Young
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible....

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    • The Life of Martin Luther King
    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical vision and importance. Now we get the most comprehensive and complete portrait ever written about this iconic figure....

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