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The Underground Railroad Records
- Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
- By: William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates - introduction, Quincy T. Mills - editor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Sullivan Jones, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad....
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Abridged by Two Thirds!
- By Chris on 06-24-20
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81. The Underground Railroad Records
- Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Sullivan Jones, Heather Alicia Simms, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-18-20
- Language: English
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Belonging
- A Culture of Place
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks moves from place to place, only to end where she began—her old Kentucky home....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow and repetitive
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-24
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82. Belonging
- A Culture of Place
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-30-23
- Language: English
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God of the Oppressed
- By: James H. Cone
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the Black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable whistling sound!
- By Gabriel on 10-05-20
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83. God of the Oppressed
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-08-20
- Language: English
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 322
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- By Joshua Daniel-Wariya on 06-06-19
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84. Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-12-18
- Language: English
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I Never Had It Made
- By: Jackie Robinson
- Narrated by: Ossie Davis
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 266
A straightforward yet inspiring story of what it took to be the first man of color to break into the white world of professional sports....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Understanding Jackie Robinson's Best Performance
- By Kdoll on 04-03-14
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85. I Never Had It Made
- Narrated by: Ossie Davis
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-06-08
- Language: English
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Belly of the Beast
- The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
- By: Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrated by: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 63
Belly of the Beast explores the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, complex and compelling
- By lena carew on 10-16-24
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86. Belly of the Beast
- The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
- Narrated by: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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Democracy in Black
- How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
- By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 493
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a postracial society....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Dysfunctional Mindset of American
- By Paul T. on 07-09-16
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87. Democracy in Black
- How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-12-16
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 372
The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical....
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5 out of 5 stars
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History of African Americans after Emancipation
- By Queen aleta on 09-24-12
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88. The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-17-08
- Language: English
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Our Kind of People
- Inside America's Black Upper Class
- By: Lawrence Otis Graham
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.
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89. Our Kind of People
- Inside America's Black Upper Class
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story5 out of 5 stars 113
This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Important person, sing-song narration
- By Judith Evans on 03-05-22
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90. Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-18-21
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton
- How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
- By: Jeffrey Haas
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 793
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 699
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Story5 out of 5 stars 694
Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narrator for a great story!!!
- By D. Rolland on 11-06-20
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91. The Assassination of Fred Hampton
- How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-29-13
- Language: English
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Talking Back (2nd Edition)
- Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy....
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92. Talking Back (2nd Edition)
- Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-11-23
- Language: English
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Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died
- Coping with Loss Every Day
- By: Ty Alexander, Tia Williams - foreward
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 764
For top blogger, Ty Alexander, the grieving process is one that she lives with day-to-day. Learning from the pain of losing her mother, Alexander connects with her listeners on a deeply emotional level in this debut audiobook....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Helps to know there's someone who understands...
- By Denise Rash on 05-31-18
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93. Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died
- Coping with Loss Every Day
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-08-18
- Language: English
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 917
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Story5 out of 5 stars 911
Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Both a Bridge and a Battle Cry
- By Darwin8u on 09-26-17
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94. The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
- By: Carter Godwin Woodson
- Narrated by: Warren Keyes
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story5 out of 5 stars 105
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson (1933), addresses important economic and social issues that were faced by African Americans. Woodson criticises education in American schools and the emphasis on the history of the Greeks, Romans, and British....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The more things change.
- By Albert Fernandez on 11-09-21
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95. The Mis-Education of the Negro
- Narrated by: Warren Keyes
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-25-21
- Language: English
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
- By: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Story5 out of 5 stars 215
Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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more books about hoodo and atr By black writers!!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-15-20
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96. Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-24-18
- Language: English
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Abolition
- Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis. Rich and rewarding, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises will appeal to fans of Davis, to students and scholars reflecting on her life and work, and to listeners new to feminism....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- By lotte torgersen on 04-16-24
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97. Abolition
- Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-26-24
- Language: English
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Stony the Road
- Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
- By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 336
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable examination of Jim Crow and Rise of White Supremacy in America
- By William J Brown on 05-14-19
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98. Stony the Road
- Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-02-19
- Language: English
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Sisters in the Wilderness
- The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
- By: Delores S. Williams, Katie G. Cannon - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar-mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God - a prototype for the struggle of African-American women....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing and informative.
- By eyepeace on 07-30-23
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99. Sisters in the Wilderness
- The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-17-21
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X
- An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
- By: Mark Whitaker
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
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100. The Afterlife of Malcolm X
- An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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