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    • By: Terrell Carter, Stacy Thunes
    • Narrated by: Terrell Carter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Problem Child is the unbelievably true story of Terrell Carter, an American musician and actor who grew up in Buffalo, New York, in a dysfunctional family, each member crazier than the next....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,808 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Taraji P. Henson
    • Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,442 ratings
    • Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood....

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    • The Autobiography of DMX
    • By: DMX
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive number one hip-hop albums in a row...this is the life and times of the darkest and most dangerously introspective hip-hop artist ever....

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    • A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,861 ratings
    • The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,696 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
    • By: Annabelle Tometich
    • Narrated by: Annabelle Tometich
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn’t prepared to hear her mother’s voice on the other end of the line.

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    • By: Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Maya Angelou
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,184 ratings
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      Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

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    • By: Issa Rae
    • Narrated by: Issa Rae
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,984 ratings
    • "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

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    • Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
    • By: Fei-Fei Li
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Safiya Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms.

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,318 ratings
    • Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,597 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • One Name, Two Fates
    • By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,237 ratings
    • From the governor of Maryland, the true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Cupcake Brown
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,699 ratings
    • Before she turned 20, Cupcake Brown survived the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, and much more....

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    • Prophet of Freedom
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,528 ratings
    • The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....

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    • My Life with Marvin Gaye
    • By: Jan Gaye
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • Dear Cary meets Confessions of a Video Vixen in this searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,514 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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