African American Biography

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    • By: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Noah Waterman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,795 ratings
    • Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
    • Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,629 ratings
    • At last, Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer Cicely Tyson tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career....

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    • A Black Woman's Story
    • By: Elaine Brown
    • Narrated by: Elaine Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • When Pride Met Courage
    • By: Walter Dean Myers, Bill Miles
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles deftly tell the true story of the unsung American heroes of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I. At a time of widespread bigotry and racism, the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment put their lives on the line for democracy....

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    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • By: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

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    • A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
    • By: James Higdon
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 851 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

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    • Four Speeches
    • By: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 971 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • As Told to Alex Haley
    • By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
    • Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,848 ratings
    • In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 692 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • Jazz Legend
    • By: Terry Collins, Richmond Pope, Ricky Riccardi
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Louis Armstrong, also known as “Satchmo” and “Pops”, became an American jazz legend in the 1920s. His voice and skill with instruments helped him become a popular musician in a time where America was racially divided....

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    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 756 ratings
    • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

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    • Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
    • By: Betty DeRamus
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south....

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