African American Nonfiction

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    • This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
    • By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress....

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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 34 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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    • A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
    • By: Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital....

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    • Navigating the Color Line
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 546 ratings
    • America's leading young black intellectual reveals the hidden rules of race that dominate politics...

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    • Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
    • By: Maurice J. Hobson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,681 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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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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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • By: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
    • Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Hugh Mann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,531 ratings
    • This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jonathan Scott Holloway
    • Narrated by: Diontae Black
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being....

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    • 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
    • By: Patrisse Cullors
    • Narrated by: Ariel Blake
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Offering a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist, An Abolitionist’s Handbook Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future....

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    • 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

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    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • By: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
    • By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism....

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