African American Memoirs

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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 6,521 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 Memoir
    • By: Tina Knowles
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
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    • Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, chronicles a life like none other. Enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering, Matriarch is a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

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    • By: Lenny Kravitz, David Ritz
    • Narrated by: Lenny Kravitz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,631 ratings
    • Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Ashley C. Ford
    • Narrated by: Ashley C. Ford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,231 ratings
    • One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father....

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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 1,081 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 Life of Malcolm X
    • By: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative....

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    • By: Kiese Laymon
    • Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,086 ratings
    • A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....

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    • The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
    • By: Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber
    • Narrated by: Patricia Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,305 ratings
    • Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor that offers a rare glimpse into the harrowing reality of life on America's margins....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Natasha S. Alford
    • Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY....

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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 156 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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    • The Cleopatra's Daughter Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Stephanie Dray
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Series: Cleopatra's Daughter Series, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,284 ratings
    • With both of her parents dead, Princess Selene and her two surviving brothers are left at the mercy of their captors, taken from Egypt and put on display in Rome. Trapped in an empire that reviles her heritage and suspects her faith, Selene struggles for survival in a court of intrigue....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Tayari Jones
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23,833 ratings
    • Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career....

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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 28 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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    • 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 620 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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    • 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 682 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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    • 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 8,978 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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    • 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 14 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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