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Harlem Godfather
- The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
- By: Karen E. Quinones, Mayme Hatcher Johnson
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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The first and only full biography on legendary Harlem gangster, Bumpy Johnson who was depicted in the movies Cotton Club, Hoodlum, and American Gangster.
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True Story
- By Peach Pitba on 06-02-24
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Harlem Godfather
- The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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An Epitaph of a Lost Country
- By Ex Rhodie on 09-01-21
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-05-20
- Language: English
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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Post-colonial memories of a British girl
- By Amazon Kunde on 14-02-18
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-03
- Language: English
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Free as a Jew
- A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation
- By: Ruth R. Wisse
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide - but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation.
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Free as a Jew
- A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- By: Hans Massaquoi
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
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What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.
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Truly Unforgettable
- By Ayo on 19-11-20
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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-06-13
- Language: English
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Chester B. Himes
- A Biography
- By: Lawrence P. Jackson
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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In this biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social injustice. In absorbing detail, Jackson explores Chester Himes's middle-class origins, eight years in prison, painful odyssey as a Black World War II-era artist, and escape to Europe, where Himes became internationally famous for his Harlem detective series.
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Chester B. Himes
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-07-17
- Language: English
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An American Martyr in Persia
- The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
- By: Reza Aslan
- Narrated by: Reza Aslan
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in Persia. Tabriz in 1907 was a hotbed of democratic revolution. Brilliant young firebrands were among Baskerville’s students at the Presbyterian school—and became his devoted friends. He lectured on freedom; they dedicated their lives to it.
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An American Martyr in Persia
- The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
- Narrated by: Reza Aslan
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana") is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in life. Northup's account describes the daily life of slaves in Bayou Beof, their diet, the relationship between the master and slave, the means that slave catchers used to recapture them and the ugly realities that slaves suffered.
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Brilliant
- By lara Acutt on 25-07-23
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Twelve Years a Slave
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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Black Moses
- The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
- By: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Within the stoned soul picnic of Black music icons in the ’60s and ’70s, only one could bill himself without a blush as Moses, demanding liberation for Black men with his notions of life and self—Isaac Lee Hayes Jr., the beautifully sheen, shaded, and chain-spangled acolyte of cool, whose high-toned “lounge music” and proto-rap was soul’s highest order—heard on twenty-two albums and selling millions of records.
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Black Moses
- The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Soldier
- A Poet's Childhood
- By: June Jordan
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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World-renowned poet and Professor of African American Studies at U.C., Berkeley, June Jordan writes a deeply personal memoir of her formative years. June recalls her childhood experiences and reveals the duality of her parents’ influence on her stellar achievement as a poet. The first 12 years in Harlem were both peaceful and tumultuous for June, as she was raised the daughter of dirt-poor West Indian immigrants.
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Soldier
- A Poet's Childhood
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-04-13
- Language: English
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Every Little Scrap and Wonder
- A Small-Town Childhood
- By: Carla Funk
- Narrated by: Carla Funk
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs, and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight.
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Every Little Scrap and Wonder
- A Small-Town Childhood
- Narrated by: Carla Funk
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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Born on the Bayou
- A Memoir
- By: Blaine Lourd
- Narrated by: Blaine Lourd
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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In honest, confessional prose, Born on the Bayou - a roller-coaster rags-to-riches story - transports us to a pocket of the South where Lourd learns how to be a man from the two people he looks up to the most: his larger-than-life father, "Puffer", a prominent figure in the oil business; and his successful older brother, Bryan.
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A Good Listen
- By Amazon Customer on 13-09-23
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Born on the Bayou
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Blaine Lourd
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-02-16
- Language: English
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Forbidden Fruit
- Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
- By: Betty DeRamus
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south.
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Forbidden Fruit
- Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-10-08
- Language: English
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Mayor for Life
- The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
- By: Marion Barry Jr., Omar Tyree
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world. This provocative, captivating narrative follows the Civil Rights activist, going back to his Mississippi roots, his Memphis upbringing, and his academic school days, up through his college years and move to Washington, DC, where he became actively involved in Civil Rights, community activism, and bold politics.
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Mayor for Life
- The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-04-20
- Language: English
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- By: Mychal Denzel Smith
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.
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Incredibly insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 17-05-17
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 14-06-16
- Language: English
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¡Ándale, Prieta!
- A Love Letter to My Family
- By: Yasmín Ramírez
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Prieta is a term of endearment. When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what prieta means—dark or the dark one—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. I see the offense they feel for me sprinkled on their faces like the freckles I will never have. How do I tell them that when I heard Ita say Prieta, I felt the caress of her strong hands on the top of my head as she braided my hair?
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¡Ándale, Prieta!
- A Love Letter to My Family
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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