Robin D. G. Kelley
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This Black History Month—and every day of the year—we're shining a light on artists and thinkers who demonstrate the boundless depths of Black creativity, joy, and love. We've gathered a list of memoirs by and biographies about artists who totally upended the expectations of a white-dominated field and crafted something entirely their own, making history and changing lives as a result.
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- By: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
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Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision....
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The definitive bio of Monk
- By ricardo on 12-27-17
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-03-17
- Language: English
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Black Marxism
- The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition
- By: Cedric J. Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard - preface, and others
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this ambitious work, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks....
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"Racial Capitalism"
- By Don Morris on 09-02-22
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Black Marxism
- The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- In Defense of Black Studies
- By: Colin Kaepernick - editor, Robin D.G. Kelley - editor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - editor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it....
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What a great way to outline important black history narratives
- By Amanda Pratt on 03-16-24
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- In Defense of Black Studies
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-19-23
- Language: English
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Hammer and Hoe
- Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
- By: Robin D. G. Kelley
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....
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Hammer and Hoe
- Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-10-20
- Language: English
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Freedom Dreams
- The Black Radical Imagination
- By: Robin D. G. Kelley
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the 20th century....
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Freedom Dreams
- The Black Radical Imagination
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-17-18
- Language: English
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Freedom Dreams
- The Black Radical Imagination
- By: Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet - foreword
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet....
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Full of past and future freedom dreams
- By Ambre Nulph on 02-12-23
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Freedom Dreams
- The Black Radical Imagination
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-22-22
- Language: English
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Race Rebels
- Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
- By: Robin D.G. Kelley
- Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve....
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Race Rebels
- Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
- Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II
- A History of African Americans from 1880
- By: Robin D.G. Kelley - editor, Earl Lewis - editor
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts that invite listeners to relive history as African Americans experienced it. From Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King, Jr., To Make Our World Anew is an unforgettable portrait of a people....
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II
- A History of African Americans from 1880
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Series: A History of African Americans, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Making a Killing
- Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life
- By: Robin D. G. Kelley
- Length: 7 hrs
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From Robin D. G. Kelley, a "leading black historian of the age," Black Bodies Swinging is a fierce, distilled history of the pillage and defiance of Black America….
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Making a Killing
- Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 01-13-26
- Language: English
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