African American Nonfiction

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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 44 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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    • 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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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 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 Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America
    • By: Selene Castrovilla, E.B. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • George Scott peered at the nearby Union fortress. Something miraculous was taking place! Three enslaved men had entered but had not been cast out. To Scott, the fortress must be a sanctuary. A place where the three would be safe from capture and harm....

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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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    • 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 37 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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    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • By: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

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    • The Black Engineer Behind Howard Hughes
    • By: H.T. Bryer, Paul Bryer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • HIDDEN GENIUS Frank Mann The Black Engineer Behind Howard Hughes by H. T. B r y e r and Paul Bryer Frank Mann had the deck stacked against him from...

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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 210 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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    • 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 16,872 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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    • 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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    • By: Larry Dane Brimmer
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Learn about the bomb blast that rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, killing four young girls....

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    • Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker
    • By: Emmanuel Acho
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times best seller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young listeners edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation....

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    • By: Kishia Robinson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • I Know I've Been Changed is an anthology featuring the testimonies of 17 women of God's transformative power! Featuring co-writers: Tina Michelle ...

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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 545 ratings
    • America's leading young black intellectual reveals the hidden rules of race that dominate politics...

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