KWK
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My Black Country
- A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
- By: Alice Randall
- Narrated by: Alice Randall
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.
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Great History!
- By David Johnson on 11-15-24
- My Black Country
- A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
- By: Alice Randall
- Narrated by: Alice Randall
Great history I never knew!
Reviewed: 08-04-24
After listening to the book I realize of course black people were involved in country music and it started way way before lîl N’as . I found it very interesting even though I am not a country music fan.
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California, a Slave State
- By: Jean Pfaelzer
- Narrated by: Ewan Chung
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California's carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers.
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Eye opening read
- By KWK on 08-04-24
- California, a Slave State
- By: Jean Pfaelzer
- Narrated by: Ewan Chung
Eye opening read
Reviewed: 08-04-24
Interesting how California has always had the label of a free state from the beginning but in reality not so much. Well researched and fascinating. Well done!
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Black Ghost of Empire
- The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
- By: Kris Manjapra
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Kris Manjapra
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt. In this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe.
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Heart Break
- By Ida Cofield on 02-22-23
- Black Ghost of Empire
- The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
- By: Kris Manjapra
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Kris Manjapra
Novel framing of ‘how did we get here’
Reviewed: 08-04-24
Lots of information new to me on how ‘failure of emancipation’ and recompense to enslavers took place in different countries. Expanded my knowledge of who worked to perpetuate the status quo and who worked with less success to try to make it right for the enslaved their descendants.
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- By: Alicia Elliott
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent, visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas experienced by her so many Native people. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and White communities - a divide reflected in her own family - and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation.
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Well written, heartfelt, revealing
- By KWK on 07-15-24
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- By: Alicia Elliott
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Well written, heartfelt, revealing
Reviewed: 07-15-24
Informative regarding journey of present day native Americans (females in particular) and the root cause of their problems. Eye opening Indigenous perspective on navigating systemic colonial based barriers to personal safety, economic survival, cultural preservation and family unity for non-‘whites’
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White Cat, Black Dog
- Stories
- By: Kelly Link
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers—characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. Twisting and winding in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never predictable—these stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the art of short fiction.
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Weird stories that seem to have no point
- By Erinne Brown on 12-09-23
- White Cat, Black Dog
- Stories
- By: Kelly Link
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, Kristen Sieh, Ish Klein, Tanya Cubric, Patton Oswalt
Out of my comfort zone
Reviewed: 06-21-24
Tried it because it was a library staff favorite and it was on sale. If you like porn and fantasy, this one’s for you.
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Summer of '85
- By: Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rocked—in almost every sense of the word—by two unprecedented events: Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s May 13 decision to bomb the headquarters of MOVE, a controversial Philadelphia-based radical communal organization, and the July 13 Live Aid concert, where international rock royalty convened in Philly to raise money for victims of the Ethiopian famine. Separated by just two months and eight miles, these events would showcase both the best and the worst of the so-called City of Brotherly Love.
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Misleading title and poor execution
- By Scott on 10-28-22
- Summer of '85
- By: Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, SBH Productions
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
Great listen!
Reviewed: 11-25-23
Thank you Audible and the producers of this audiobook! Excellent narration of a story well told. There has been much talk of Tulsa massacre lately but the MOVE tragedy happened in my adult lifetime and I never heard of it. Also didn’t know that Live Aid and Farm Aid have continued their work all these years. Good on ya for bring two important stories to life!
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Atossa Leoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them, in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul, they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.
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Completely brilliant
- By Suze Weinberg on 06-01-07
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Atossa Leoni
Fine historical fiction
Reviewed: 08-04-23
Beautiful expressive language. Masterful weaving of a story. Fascinating peek into the lives of afghani women, refugees and tumultuous regime changes.
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African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
- Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
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African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new distinctly American culture.
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faux vocalizations
- By Porter on 08-19-22
- African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
Wow!
Reviewed: 08-05-22
This is an expansive scholarly work offering in depth, well researched insights and perspectives. An invaluable addition to Black history literature. Narrator is great, especially when rendering direct quotes.
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- By: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present - edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
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History never taught
- By Scott P ODonnell on 02-16-21
- Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- By: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrated by: full cast
Good content
Reviewed: 05-12-22
Does a great job of bringing known and little known stories to life and correlating them to today’s world. Some narration was good. Many could be better. I Kendi’s pressured speaking style is especially difficult to listen to. Good readers may consider going straight to the printed version.
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The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrated by: Melinda Wade
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Until recently, microglia were thought to be merely the brain’s housekeepers, helpfully removing damaged cells. But a recent groundbreaking discovery revealed them to be capable of terrifying Jekyll and Hyde behavior. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia - they can morph into destroyers, impacting a wide range of issues from memory problems and anxiety to depression and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers.
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A Magnus Opus for Microglia
- By Dominic Acri on 01-23-20
- The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrated by: Melinda Wade
Good but too much fluff
Reviewed: 05-25-20
Great approachable rendition of recent medical discoveries and research bring them to the mainstream. Absolutely too much minute by minute recounting of patient experiences. Slows down momentum and makes you wish you had a print version.
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