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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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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
- Unabridged
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In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.
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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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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- By: Hans Massaquoi
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Only Woman in the Room
- Golda Meir and Her Path to Power
- By: Pnina Lahav
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait of her persona and legacy.
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Golda Meir and Her Path to Power
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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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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Black, Queer & Untold
- A New Archive of Designers, Artists, & Trailblazers
- By: Jon Key
- Narrated by: Jarrett Key
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who GOT him. So he started asking himself questions: What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer?
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Black, Queer & Untold
- A New Archive of Designers, Artists, & Trailblazers
- Narrated by: Jarrett Key
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Beautiful Monster
- A Becoming
- By: Miles Borrero
- Narrated by: Miles Borrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearing the age of forty, with an entire life already lived as a woman, Miles Borrero comes face to face with his father’s impending death. Suddenly realizing he has been stalling his transition for fear of losing his family’s love, this moment catalyzes Miles’s determination to be known as his father’s son. In Beautiful Monster, Miles chronicles his unusual childhood, by turns riveting and hilarious, in ’80s and ’90s Colombia during the Pablo Escobar years, as well as his move to Salt Lake City to pursue acting and the winding trajectory that eventually lands him in New York City.
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Beautiful Monster
- A Becoming
- Narrated by: Miles Borrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Every Little Scrap and Wonder
- A Small-Town Childhood
- By: Carla Funk
- Narrated by: Carla Funk
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Orchestration
- A Memoir
- By: Saundra Henderson Windom
- Narrated by: Saundra Henderson Windom
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The war cost her everything: a mother, a father, and a country. Four-year-old Bang Sun, found tied to a tree, is riddled with disease, malnutrition, and bears the scars of a tragic life. Facing a future of nothing but pain, loss, and hopelessness, we follow the story of a mixed-race African American child of the Korean War. When Korea begins purging itself of its unwanted casualties, babies of war, her abandonment leads to two orphanages and eventually to adoption in America - where Bang Sun must now become an American - a Black American.
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Orchestration
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Saundra Henderson Windom
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-09-21
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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American Imam
- From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
- By: Taymullah Abdur-Rahman
- Narrated by: Taymullah Abdur-Rahman
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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By the time he was twelve, Taymullah Abdur-Rahman (born Tyrone Sutton) was a rising pop star, recruited as part of the RB group Perfect Gentlemen, with a top-ten hit, national teen magazine covers, and an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. However, after his music career peaked, Abdur-Rahman found himself back home, with little to show for his success. He quickly became a teen father struggling to survive in Roxbury, MA. Seeing Islam as a way out of his hard-scrabble environment, he happily converted.
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American Imam
- From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
- Narrated by: Taymullah Abdur-Rahman
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Not the Boy for You
- Becoming a Black Gay Man in a Culture of Exclusion
- By: Angelo Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Not the Boy for You is the story of a life deferred but not denied. In this deeply personal literary memoir, Angelo Robinson chronicles his journey to wholeness as a young Black gay man in America. Not the Boy for You is a voyage through imagination and secrecy to create a world free to accept...
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Not the Boy for You
- Becoming a Black Gay Man in a Culture of Exclusion
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-10-26
- Language: English
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain
- The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
- By: Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change.
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain
- The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- 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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Striving for Justice
- A Memoir of a Black Sheriff in the Deep South
- By: Nat Glover
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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The first Black man to become sheriff of a major city in the Deep South after Reconstruction, STRIVING FOR JUSTICE is the story of how a poor Black boy grew up in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, survived a violent racist attack by the Ku Klux Klan, and advanced through a blatantly prejudiced police force in the 1960s to become a national leader of police reform in America, who, as President Clinton recognized, broke down barriers, and whose innovative policing reforms created greater respect between citizens and police, lower crime, and safer neighborhoods.
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Striving for Justice
- A Memoir of a Black Sheriff in the Deep South
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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