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 6,530 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: 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 684 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 957 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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    • 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 1,235 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 Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
    • By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics....

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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 7,320 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 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 1,094 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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    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004 ratings
    • A startling and eye-opening look into America's first family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave....

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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 65 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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    • 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 6,089 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 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 614 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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    • 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 23,845 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 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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    • 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 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 1,285 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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