African American Memoirs

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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 856 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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    • How to Be True to You
    • By: A'ja Wilson
    • Narrated by: A'ja Wilson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • Dear Black Girls is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today—and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Michael K. Williams, Jon Sternfeld
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation....

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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 973 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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    • 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 158 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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    • 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 25 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 6,655 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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    • 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 665 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

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    • The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    • By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
    • By: Chris Tomlinson
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A masterpiece of authentic American history, Tomlinson Hill traces the true and very revealing story of two families....

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    • A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
    • By: Sheila Johnson
    • Narrated by: Sheila Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,293 ratings
    • The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life.

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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 402 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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    • A Memoir of My Years in Washington
    • By: Condoleezza Rice
    • Narrated by: Condoleezza Rice
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 769 ratings
    • A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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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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