African American Leadership

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    • Laws of Leadership for Black Women
    • By: Elaine Brown, Marsha Haygood, Rhonda McLean
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 436 ratings
    • Three powerful African-American female executives celebrate their gender and heritage as they share their secrets for success in this effective guide for businesswomen....

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    • Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms
    • By: Nicole Lynn
    • Narrated by: Nicole Lynn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • If anyone can show you how to do this, it’s Nicole Lynn. As the first Black female agent to represent a top-three NFL draft pick, Nicole worked her way from childhood poverty to become a Wall Street financial analyst, then attorney, and now top agent to elite athletes and entertainers....

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    • The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
    • By: Pamela Newkirk
    • Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
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    • An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry - and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Ursula Burns
    • Narrated by: Ursula Burns
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and more....

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    • How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work
    • By: Francine Parham
    • Narrated by: Francine Parham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works—who has it, where it hides, and how it’s used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Thomas W. Jones
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and then altered his course over the next 50 years to become a powerful leader in the financial industry....

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    • Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
    • By: Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Carolyn M. Brown - contributor
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
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    • Michelle Gadsden-Williams combines her inspirational life story with pragmatic solutions to address problems facing women in corporate America, offering a professional playbook for tackling today's most pressing workplace issues....

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    • A Story of High and Low Notes
    • By: Dr. Mervin Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dr. Mervin Jenkins—hip-hop artist, educator, husband, and father—takes readers on a journey in leadership unlike any other. It is a story of a ...

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    • Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
    • By: Carmen Best
    • Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Chief Carmen Best has spent the last 28 years as a member of a big-city police force, an institution where minorities and women have historically found it especially difficult to succeed. She defied the odds and became the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department....

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    • Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Steven L. Reed, Fagan Harris
    • Narrated by: Steven L. Reed
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn’t built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader....

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    • How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace
    • By: Kevin Woodson
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Sociologist and law professor Kevin Woodson provides a revelatory assessment of workplace inequality in high-status jobs that focuses on a new explanation for a pernicious problem: racial discomfort....

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    • In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
    • By: Diane Brady
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Clyde W. Ford
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first Black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his father’s view of himself and their relationship....

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