Curtis J. Jones
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Finding Tamika
- By: Erika Alexander, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, and others
- Narrated by: Erika Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika Alexander in a neo-noir, true crime drama as she searches for Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old Black woman from Spartanburg, SC who went missing in 2004. Her case became a rallying cry for other missing Black women in America and led to a growing demand to expose a system that ignores missing girls and women of color.
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Cynical conflation of two tragedies
- By Buretto on 03-26-22
A story that needs to be told
Reviewed: 04-24-24
At times due to it being a TV series you feel like you are missing out when music is playing and scenes are being shown that you can't see in an audio book format. Overall it is a very engaging story on a topic that needs more attention.
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Pablo Escobar: My Father
- By: Juan Pablo Escobar, Andrea Rosenberg - translator
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time. But these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home. More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with the king of cocaine, Juan Pablo Escobar travels to the past to reveal an unabridged version of his father.
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Not enough new information
- By JOHN on 01-16-18
- Pablo Escobar: My Father
- By: Juan Pablo Escobar, Andrea Rosenberg - translator
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Great Listen
Reviewed: 03-14-24
Juan Pablo does an amazing job on walking the line between explaining events while not glorifying them.
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.
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Preaching to the choir
- By Mike on 03-07-24
- White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Fair and balanced
Reviewed: 03-08-24
I appreciated that the book is not an attack or demonization against rural YT America but in a depth analysis. There is also an off ramp people can choose before it is too late for American Democracy.
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Pipeline to Power
- The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Vicky Ward
- Length: 4 hrs
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Forty years ago, following the appointment of their professors to the federal bench, a tiny group of conservative law students at Yale Law School worried that their ideas might disappear from intellectual discourse in this bastion of liberal thought. They set out to fill that void. But they ended up achieving way more than that. Over the next few decades, the Federalist Society became an integral tool in the larger conservative movement, with political, judicial, and social repercussions ending in the conservative capture of the Supreme Court and the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
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Disturbingly Timely
- By pilatesgal on 09-24-23
- Pipeline to Power
- The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Vicky Ward
Minority Rule At Work
Reviewed: 12-19-23
The book is a must listen though it makes my blood boil. It clearly demonstrates how a minority regime can go against the will of the people and how the SCOTUS has lost it's legitimacy.
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Tired of Winning
- Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
- By: Jonathan Karl
- Narrated by: Jonathan Karl
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump’s improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump has become more extreme, vengeful, and divorced from reality than he was on January 6, 2021. His meddling damaged the GOP’s electoral prospects and his legal troubles were mounting. Yet he re-emerged as the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and the president-elect.
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Compelling and Terrifying
- By Shaz on 11-15-23
- Tired of Winning
- Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
- By: Jonathan Karl
- Narrated by: Jonathan Karl
Impactful
Reviewed: 11-16-23
I appreciated that the author came with receipts, sources, and even audio to back up his points. Truth is truth! A line has been drawn in the sand and it is important to determine your side.
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They Want to Kill Americans
- The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
- By: Malcolm Nance
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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They Want to Kill Americans is the first detailed look into the heart of the active Trump-led insurgency, setting the stage for a second nation-wide rebellion on American soil. This is a chilling and deeply researched early warning to the nation from a counterterrorism intelligence professional: America is primed for a possible explosive wave of terrorist attacks and armed confrontations that aim to bring about a Donald Trump led dictatorship.
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It's informative and frightening
- By Amazon Customer on 07-17-22
- They Want to Kill Americans
- The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
- By: Malcolm Nance
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
It Makes Sense Now
Reviewed: 11-06-23
All of the hypocrisy, the twisting of the truth and lies. The cover up of history and denial of facts. This book is terrifying but sheds light on where we are as a nation and where we can end up unless we all take action to preserve this imperfect union.
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Standing My Ground
- A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
- By: Harry Dunn
- Narrated by: Harry Dunn
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Standing My Ground will provide a crucial, definitive first-hand account of what happened that day our world was shocked to its core. But it will also share the story of a man who refused to stay quiet when he learned that some of the men and women he had risked his life protecting, who knew him by name, would deny the horrors they faced.
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Listen and listen, again
- By B on 10-24-23
- Standing My Ground
- A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
- By: Harry Dunn
- Narrated by: Harry Dunn
Truth
Reviewed: 10-26-23
Harry does a great job of being humanizing himself after so many tried to take away his humanity and the truth. This book is raw and highlights his struggles as a black man on Jan 6 defending a country that a portion of is not defending him.
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Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Narrated by: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all White people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: White progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward.
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A follow up to White Fragility that's just as weak
- By matthew on 10-26-21
- Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Narrated by: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Necessary
Reviewed: 12-27-22
This book perfectly summarizes feelings and situations I have frequently found myself in. Racism is not just KKK and burning crosses. Most black Americans do not experience racism that extreme. That is a great listen for people that want to strengthen their allyship.
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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
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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. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in detail. Revealing Hampton himself in a new light, this examination presents him as a dynamic community leader whose dedication to his people and to the truth inspired the young lawyers of the People's Law Office.
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Terrible narrator for a great story!!!
- By D. Rolland on 11-06-20
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton
- How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
- By: Jeffrey Haas
- Narrated by: George Newbern
Must Listen
Reviewed: 06-14-21
Hard material to listen to but important that the information is taught and shared. Truth matters!
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
- By: Emmanuel Acho
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask—yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever.
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Enlightening!
- By Kiley on 11-11-20
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
- By: Emmanuel Acho
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho
Must Listen
Reviewed: 12-02-20
For anyone that is looking for ways to help foster equality in the USA. This is a great way to get started.
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