African American Memoirs

Liste de produits
    • Intimate African American Narratives
    • Auteur(s): Tom Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Kristin McGriff
    • Durée: 2 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Unveiling Our Story: Intimate African American Narratives is a powerful and timely tribute to the voices that history too often tries to silence. In an era where African American history is being questioned, diluted, and even erased, this audiobook stands as a bold act of remembrance and resistance.

    8,71 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Essays
    • Auteur(s): R. Eric Thomas
    • Narrateur(s): R. Eric Thomas
    • Durée: 6 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 évaluations
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after. “How is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one?...

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    • Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency
    • Auteur(s): Gary Rivlin
    • Narrateur(s): George Orlando
    • Durée: 13 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • In 1983 Chicago elected Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor. This is the story of Washington's improbable victory over Jane Byrne....

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    • My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America
    • Auteur(s): Zachary R. Wood
    • Narrateur(s): Zachary R. Wood
    • Durée: 7 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary R. Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions—in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen. As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary...

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    • Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
    • Auteur(s): Akash Kapur
    • Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam
    • Durée: 12 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 évaluations
    • *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant* A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the...

    26,99 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Learning to Be a Son and a Father
    • Auteur(s): Craig Melvin
    • Narrateur(s): Craig Melvin
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC’s Today show. For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and...

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    • My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Alice Marie Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 évaluations
    • Foreword by Kim Kardashian West The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West—an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude. How do you hold on to hope after...

    27,96 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • 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....

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    • Auteur(s): Maurice White, Herb Powell
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 11 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David...

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    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Nyamayaro
    • Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Nyamayaro
    • Durée: 9 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 évaluations
    • A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no...

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    • Chasing Myself in the Race against Time
    • Auteur(s): Ida Keeling, Anita Diggs
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Renne Pitts
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression and the civil rights movement--but her greatest trials were yet to come. Miss Ida, as she is...

    25,63 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God and Self
    • Auteur(s): Carlton Pearson
    • Narrateur(s): Carlton Pearson
    • Durée: 6 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • Fourth-generation fundamentalist Carlton Pearson, a Christian megastar and host, takes a courageous and controversial stand on religion that proposes a hell-less Christianity and a gospel of inclusion that calls for an end to local and worldwide conflicts and divisions along religious lines. In...

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    • W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
    • Auteur(s): Aldon D. Morris
    • Narrateur(s): K. Todd Freeman
    • Durée: 11 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’ ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’ work in the founding of the discipline....

    31,26 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • A Memoir in Essays
    • Auteur(s): Damon Young
    • Narrateur(s): Damon Young
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 6 évaluations
    • A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and...

    36,12 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Auteur(s): Solomon Northup
    • Narrateur(s): Louis Gossett Jr.
    • Durée: 7 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 20 évaluations
    • Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War....

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • At the 40th anniversary of King's assassination, acclaimed public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson reevaluates the fate of America, specifically Black America, since that date....

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    • On Personhood, Race, and Origin
    • Auteur(s): Hafizah Augustus Geter
    • Narrateur(s): Hafizah Augustus Geter
    • Durée: 10 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals. “Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or...

    23,99 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • A Memoir in Moments
    • Auteur(s): D. Watkins
    • Narrateur(s): D. Watkins
    • Durée: 5 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of-age journey as a Black boy, from the societal roots of trauma to finding joy. "If I had two wishes, it would be that D. Watkins spend an entire book writing through the terrifying wonder of Black...

    22,13 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): John Dearman
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Dent
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • John Dearman recalls his unlikely and lucky journey from poverty in segregated and hostile central Texas to law school in Michigan and a prestigious judgeship in San Francisco.

    25,00 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
    • Auteur(s): Gail Lumet Buckley
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 11 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family....

    33,01 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours