B. Dickey
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That Mean Old Yesterday
- By: Stacey Patton
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Growing up, Stacey Patton had very little sense of personal identity while living in the foster-care system. When she was adopted by a God-fearing and hard-working couple, she finally felt like she had a place in the world. But her life quickly descended into a nightmare when her new mother became increasingly domineering while her new father often acquiesced to his wife's blistering demands.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Moving-powerful & insightful
- By Vermont on 05-23-08
- That Mean Old Yesterday
- By: Stacey Patton
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Resilience!
Reviewed: 09-19-24
A captivating story that I had to listen to twice, back to back to catch the details that I missed the first time. It's always good to get the back story on someone who's doing a great life work that affects our community. Thank you so much for surviving your childhood and using the lessons you learned to start a movement to save children from child abuse!
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Defiance
- By: Michael Johnson
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story5 out of 5 stars 42
Legendary sprinter Michael Johnson embarks upon a personal journey through the history of protest in sport. Drawing on conversations with fellow athletes, commentators and educators, he discovers the remarkable stories of those who’ve taken stands, and assesses the impact of their efforts in driving societal change. Michael also reflects on his own actions of defiance, how the modern day differs from the peak years of his career and contemplates whether he himself would take the knee were he still competing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FASCINATING about sports, culture and conscience
- By Amazon Customer on 10-18-21
Defiant is our collective history
Reviewed: 08-27-24
i like how this podcast went way back to Paul Robeson and forward to share how each generation had its own standout athlete who used their platform to defy the status quo! Since our history isn't taught in schools this is a great supplement to educating ourselves on our contributions to American history.
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Christmas at the Gingerbread Inn
- By: Michelle Stimpson
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Wesleigh Siobhan
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 984
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 947
Ever since his mother passed away two years ago, Caleb Pine has been stuck while the rest of his family seem to have moved on. Alone at Christmas, he finds himself drawn back to Martha’s Vineyard and the Gingerbread Inn, where his family spent a wonderful Christmas holiday when he was a teen. To his surprise, the local girl he almost kissed under the mistletoe all those years ago is now grown up and running the Inn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story Anytime of the Year
- By NeoSoulHippie on 12-02-23
- Christmas at the Gingerbread Inn
- By: Michelle Stimpson
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Wesleigh Siobhan
Love Wins!
Reviewed: 03-24-24
I loved everything about this story! The backstories of the leads and how they pressed forward to get back to each other! Their love story was wholesome and nostalgic of former times when love developed organically and in its own season!
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Trapdoor
- By: J.P. Pomare
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Blazey Best, Yannick Lawry, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,894
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,893
Eva Kavinsky wakes in a dark cellar, with no memory of how she got here. Imprisoned with her, seemingly at random, are four men. The only way out is the trapdoor in the ceiling – and it's locked. The single clue about what brings them all here is a cryptic message sprayed onto one wall. Connect the dots. Repent. A camera fixed high above reach is livestreaming this whole nightmare to the world. What confessions are they meant to make to their unseen audience?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Suspenseful and surprising
- By Patrick J. McDonald on 11-08-23
- Trapdoor
- By: J.P. Pomare
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Blazey Best, Yannick Lawry, Lewis Fitzgerald, Brodie Masini
Edge of my seat!
Reviewed: 03-21-24
I started listening early in the evening and couldn't stop until it ended. I was on the edge of my seat listening for the next revelation as each chapter was read! I never would have guessed the ending, but it was appropriate given everything that had transpired.
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Your First Million
- Why You Don't Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story5 out of 5 stars 102
Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that money is power—but not for the reasons most people believe. Money is power, she says, because it provides us with options: to pursue our passions, take risks, and change our situation in life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-24
- Your First Million
- Why You Don't Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
Great Book!
Reviewed: 03-03-24
i listened to both of her books back to back and loved how she walked us through her personal testimony of how she got to where she is today! Great inspirational tidbits were shared that would encourage anyone that they can achieve their dreams too!
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It's About Damn Time
- How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 560
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 464
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Story5 out of 5 stars 462
In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was on food stamps and sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport, with nothing but an old laptop and a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She couldn’t understand why people starting companies all looked the same (white and male), and she wanted the chance to invest in the ideas and people who didn’t conform to this image of how a founder is supposed to look. Hamilton had no contacts or network in Silicon Valley, no background in finance - not even a college degree. What she did have was fierce determination and the will to succeed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very inspiring story
- By Abir Chermiti - EllePodTalks on 10-26-20
- It's About Damn Time
- How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
- By: Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
- Narrated by: Arlan Hamilton
Persistence!
Reviewed: 03-03-24
I loved her backstory and firsthand accounts of her journey to becoming what she methodically planned and positioned herself TO BE!!!
EVERYTHING SHE WENT THROUGH PREPARED HER TO BE WHERE SHE IS TODAY!! BRAVA, ARLAN HAMILTON, BRAVA!!!!
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- By: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 244
It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she’d worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy in the controversial movie Gone With the Wind was going to be life-changing. Or so she thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Story I Never Knew
- By Face To Face With Yolanda on 04-27-24
- The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- By: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Thoroughly researched and written!
Reviewed: 02-17-24
There is a whole lot to unpack in the life of Hattie McDaniel and ReShonda Tate took the time to do the research then synthesized that information into a book that kept my attention until I finished it!
A lot of personal information about Hattie was organized in a way that made it digestable in this book format.
I was shaking my head the entire time I was reading the book because Academy Award winning Hattie McDaniel's experiences with racism mirrored my own southern roots family's experiences.
Every Negro/Colored person went through the same Jim Crow system across this nation. Our elders shielded us by not talking about the racist acts they constantly endured and how it weighed them down and wore them out.
We need to be reminded of how very difficult life was during Jim Crow and why every WIN against it helped to usher in the Civil Rights Movement. It really is all related, we just need to connect the dots for this present generation so they can tap into the urgency of the times we're living in and truly understand why we can't go backwards!
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The Davenports
- By: Krystal Marquis
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 878
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 876
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. Now it's 1910, and the Davenports live surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Giving Bridgerton Vibes
- By Danni B. on 03-11-23
- The Davenports
- By: Krystal Marquis
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
The Other Half!
Reviewed: 10-10-23
I have no personal experience with wealthy and affluent Blacks in America! This story allowed me a peep into the opulent lifestyles they lived that are a part of our Black History!
It is inspiring to learn the detailed lavish lives that we lived, how we created wealth for our families and that luxurious living was our portion too!
We come from old money too and new money isn't as brand new as depicted for us. Media controlled the narrative for so long with the poverty of blacks it was hard to imagine this level of wealth ever existed for us at the same time!
I LOVED THAT FOR US!!🥰
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,459
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,354
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,354
America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
- Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
Riveting History told from a Black perspective!
Reviewed: 10-06-23
Listening to the author read his book added to my enjoyment of this book. Michael Harriot did not disappoint in his delivery of well known facts (to me) about our contributions to America's history! If you want to learn what has been missing in every school's curriculum BUY THIS BOOK AND READ IT!
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While Justice Sleeps
- A Novel
- By: Stacey Abrams
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Stacey Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,769
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,366
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together - excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn - the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases - has slipped into a coma, Avery’s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, Bad Reader, I still recommend
- By Renee A. Kaplowitz on 05-12-21
- While Justice Sleeps
- A Novel
- By: Stacey Abrams
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Stacey Abrams
Now I get Rogue Justice!
Reviewed: 07-29-23
I read Rogue Justice first and learned there was a Book 1 in this series on Avery Greene, now I see where Rogue Justice picked up! There are a few references to what happened in this book in Book 2 so now I want to re-read them both for the continuity! I love Stacy Abrams' command and use of the language of politics which makes these two books sound like they're ripped from our current headlines and our 24 hour news cycles! I've read everything she's written including her Selena Montgomery series and I just love her writing style!👌
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