African American Biography

Liste de produits
    • Golf's Forgotten Star
    • Auteur(s): Gordon Hobson
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 4 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of twenty-three-and rose to the top of the PGA....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Auteur(s): Walter Rodney
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 4 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean....

    Prix courant: 14,47 $

    • An Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): John Thompson, Jesse Washington
    • Narrateur(s): Jesse Washington
    • Durée: 10 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Ursula Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Ursula Burns
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and more....

    Prix courant: 31,46 $

    • The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer
    • Auteur(s): Chad Sanders
    • Narrateur(s): Chad Sanders
    • Durée: 5 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art, How to Sell Out explores the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America.

    Prix courant: 19,46 $

    • A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
    • Auteur(s): Sheila Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Sheila Johnson
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life.

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

    • An American Family Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Martha S. Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Martha S. Jones
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Prizewinning scholar of Black history Martha S. Jones delves into her family’s past in this memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America.

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Durée: 30 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the prominent abolitionist during and after the Civil War. Here, Douglass provides a fuller account of his escape from slavery and the underground railway to freedom....

    Prix courant: 52,63 $

    • A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
    • Auteur(s): Grace Elizabeth Hale, John Grisham - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Nicole Swanson, Matt Godfrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
    • Auteur(s): Karolyn Smardz Frost
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 14 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-02-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn⿿s perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
    • Auteur(s): Keisha N. Blain
    • Narrateur(s): Tyra Kennedy
    • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

  • Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • Auteur(s): Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 8 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

    Prix courant: 33,06 $

    • The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
    • Auteur(s): Maxine Gordon
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Morton, Terria Joseph, Prentice Onayemi
    • Durée: 10 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera
    • Auteur(s): Bill Duke
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, [and] Predator.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Carroll
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • A “gorgeous and powerful” memoir from cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely White childhood to forge her identity as a Black woman in America....

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • Auteur(s): Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrateur(s): Daphne Kouma
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Durée: 3 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 17,48 $

    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 13 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 30,73 $

  • Prix courant: 31,26 $