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The Aerospace Professor
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Publisher's summary
Who am I, Forrest Gump? The Aerospace Professor’s autobiography is provocative and a compilation of dramatic, emotional, and riveting journeys from the author's early childhood through maturity. With a small amount of imagination, the autobiography resembles the life of a Tom Hanks movie character like Forrest Gump. Find out more. The Aerospace Professor's autobiography is about the life of Adjunct Professor Jeffery Battle and his profile of courage.
Despite the severity of any particular experience, The Aerospace Professor’s direct and indirect associations served as strength; hear more about The Aerospace Professor and Taraji P. Henson, Tuskegee Airman General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, John Mellencamp, Charlie Wilson, Golden Frinks, William Earl “Bootsy” Collins, Oprah Winfrey, The US Air Force, The Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, Brooke Simpson (The Voice), and Representative John D. Hall. Remember to always “Look Above.”
The Aerospace Professor (Jeffery Battle) and The Aerospace Professor Company are the definition of the subtitle "The Man and the Brand". Professor Battle has a master of business administration in aviation (MBA/A), with two bachelor's degrees in general engineering and professional aeronautics. He is a service-disabled US Air Force veteran and cancer survivor. Are you looking for a motivational listen to boost your confidence? You don’t need to look any further as The Aerospace Professor is finally out now, featuring the secrets to living a successful life despite setbacks and barriers!
“We cannot rise above until we begin to look above.” Jeffery Battle, also known as The Aerospace Professor! His autobiography and life experiences are where an incredible number of adverse circumstances and perceived setbacks, uncovered unlikely success stories despite the gravity of the experiences individually. Remember to remain positive and optimistic, seek solutions, focus, be flexible, and always "Look Above".
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Little Leaders
- By Annie P. on 10-16-18
By: Vashti Harrison
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- By: Tom Gjelten
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
By: Tom Gjelten
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Black Detroit
- A People's History of Self-Determination
- By: Herb Boyd
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city's past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation's fabric.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Selective Recall
- By Rick on 07-19-17
By: Herb Boyd
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How to Be Black
- By: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrated by: Baratunde Thurston
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny yet insightful!
- By Theodore on 02-15-12
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- By: Andre M. Perry
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More about Black lives than property
- By J. Craig on 04-13-22
By: Andre M. Perry
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
- A Memoir
- By: Ursula Burns
- Narrated by: Ursula Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 399
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story5 out of 5 stars 344
The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she’s conquered being Black and a woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable story, flaws and all
- By Anonymous User on 01-06-22
By: Ursula Burns
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- By: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 761
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 660
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Story5 out of 5 stars 662
John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will never see school the same
- By Nicole on 05-21-15
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Black Titan
- A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
- By: Carol Jenkins
- Narrated by: Susan Spain
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Story5 out of 5 stars 391
A.G. Gaston, the poor grandson of slaves, was born in the Deep South in 1892. Over the course of his extraordinary life, he amassed a fortune of over $130 million and a vast business empire. The story of his remarkable life is written with eloquence and grace by his niece, an Emmy¿ Award-winning journalist and her daughter, who holds degrees from Yale and Harvard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Black Gold = Standing Ovation
- By 2Fresh on 01-20-16
By: Carol Jenkins
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Major General Mari K. Eder US Army (Ret.)
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 160
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII - in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ending very poorly done
- By Jacqueline Bailey on 10-03-21
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Disintegration
- The Splintering of Black America
- By: Eugene Robinson
- Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written for Popular Consumption
- By Catherine S. Read on 06-03-11
By: Eugene Robinson
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Trailblazer
- A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
- By: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to finish
- By SL41639 on 04-06-20
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to "turn on, tune in, drop out". While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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boring survey of a generation
- By Andy on 01-01-08
By: Tom Brokaw
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Black in Blue
- Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
- By: Carmen Best
- Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Chief Carmen Best has spent the last 28 years as a member of a big-city police force, an institution where minorities and women have historically found it especially difficult to succeed. She defied the odds and became the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leadership is Lonely
- By Kindle Customer on 11-07-21
By: Carmen Best
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- By: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story5 out of 5 stars 40
A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a legacy!!!
- By Paul on 03-08-21
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