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Vigilance
- The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
- Di: Andrew K. Diemer
- Letto da: Cary Hite
- Durata: 12 ore e 20 min
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The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in...
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Di: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Letto da: Ricco Ross
- Durata: 3 ore e 8 min
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‘One thing is certain, – that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.’ Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental and...
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Letto da: Ricco Ross
- Durata: 3 ore e 8 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/07/2005
- Lingua: Inglese
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Jackson, 1964
- And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
- Di: Calvin Trillin
- Letto da: Robert Fass, Calvin Trillin
- Durata: 8 ore e 25 min
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South...
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Jackson, 1964
- And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
- Letto da: Robert Fass, Calvin Trillin
- Durata: 8 ore e 25 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/06/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Faith In The Valley
- Lessons For Women On The Journey To Peace
- Di: Iyanla Vanzant
- Letto da: Iyanla Vanzant
- Durata: 2 ore e 15 min
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“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey In this companion volume to her bestselling book Acts of Faith, bestselling author and star of Iyanla: Fix My Life discusses the “valleys” that cause stress and imbalance for women and explains how women...
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Faith In The Valley
- Lessons For Women On The Journey To Peace
- Letto da: Iyanla Vanzant
- Durata: 2 ore e 15 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/06/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- Di: Eleanor Henderson
- Letto da: Allyson Johnson
- Durata: 17 ore e 4 min
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‘Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent’ Ann Patchett ‘A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers‘ Oprah Magazine Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep...
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- Letto da: Allyson Johnson
- Durata: 17 ore e 4 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 12/09/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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In Search of Our Roots
- How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- Di: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 16 ore e 13 min
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Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and...
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In Search of Our Roots
- How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 16 ore e 13 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 27/01/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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Finding Oprah's Roots
- Finding Your Own
- Di: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 5 ore e 23 min
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“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make,” says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone.” This audiobook will help millions of...
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Finding Oprah's Roots
- Finding Your Own
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 5 ore e 23 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 08/03/2007
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
- Di: Austin Reed, Caleb Smith - editor, David W. Blight - introduction, e altri
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 10 ore e 15 min
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part...
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 10 ore e 15 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/01/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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En busca de la felycidad (Pursuit of Happyness)
- Di: Chris Gardner
- Letto da: Bob Borquez
- Durata: 12 ore e 59 min
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A la edad de veinte años y después de haber salido de la Marina, Chris Gardner, llegó a San Francisco para continuar una carrera prometedora en la medicina. Considerado un hijo prodigio de la investigación científica, sorprendió a todos y a sí mismo estableciendo su punto de vista en el...
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En busca de la felycidad (Pursuit of Happyness)
- Letto da: Bob Borquez
- Durata: 12 ore e 59 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/06/2015
- Lingua: Spagnolo
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I'd Rather We Got Casinos
- And Other Black Thoughts
- Di: Larry Wilmore
- Letto da: Larry Wilmore
- Durata: 3 ore e 18 min
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From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an...
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I'd Rather We Got Casinos
- And Other Black Thoughts
- Letto da: Larry Wilmore
- Durata: 3 ore e 18 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 23/04/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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The King Years
- Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
- Di: Taylor Branch
- Letto da: Leslie Jr Odom
- Durata: 6 ore e 34 min
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The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy—Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan’s Edge. Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America...
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The King Years
- Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
- Letto da: Leslie Jr Odom
- Durata: 6 ore e 34 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/01/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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Sting Like a Bee
- Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Di: Leigh Montville
- Letto da: JD Jackson
- Durata: 14 ore e 31 min
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An insightful portrait of Muhammad Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military—and the key moments in a life that was as high profile and...
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Sting Like a Bee
- Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Letto da: JD Jackson
- Durata: 14 ore e 31 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/05/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Maggie's American Dream
- The Life and Times of a Black Family
- Di: James P. Comer
- Letto da: Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
- Durata: 2 ore e 46 min
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The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up...
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Maggie's American Dream
- The Life and Times of a Black Family
- Letto da: Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
- Durata: 2 ore e 46 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/06/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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Writing to Save a Life
- The Louis Till File
- Di: John Edgar Wideman
- Letto da: Roger Guenveur Smith
- Durata: 7 ore e 29 min
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A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the...
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Writing to Save a Life
- The Louis Till File
- Letto da: Roger Guenveur Smith
- Durata: 7 ore e 29 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/11/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Bound for Canaan
- The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
- Di: Fergus Bordewich
- Letto da: Fergus Bordewich
- Durata: 5 ore e 29 min
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An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion...
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Bound for Canaan
- The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
- Letto da: Fergus Bordewich
- Durata: 5 ore e 29 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/09/2005
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Big Sea
- An Autobiography
- Di: Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 10 ore e 38 min
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Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem...
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The Big Sea
- An Autobiography
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 10 ore e 38 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/07/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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I Wonder as I Wander
- An Autobiographical Journey
- Di: Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 16 ore e 42 min
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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and...
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I Wonder as I Wander
- An Autobiographical Journey
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 16 ore e 42 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/07/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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Pillar of Fire
- America in the King Years, Part II - 1963-64
- Di: Taylor Branch
- Letto da: CCH Pounder, Joe Morton
- Durata: 6 ore e 45 min
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the...
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Pillar of Fire
- America in the King Years, Part II - 1963-64
- Letto da: CCH Pounder, Joe Morton
- Durata: 6 ore e 45 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 27/04/2000
- Lingua: Inglese
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Every Tongue Got to Confess
- Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States
- Di: Zora Neale Hurston
- Letto da: Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
- Durata: 6 ore e 46 min
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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Hilarious, bittersweet...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess
- Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States
- Letto da: Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
- Durata: 6 ore e 46 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/11/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- Di: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 14 ore e 28 min
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The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical...
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- Letto da: Dominic Hoffman
- Durata: 14 ore e 28 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 24/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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