Great African American Literary Voices

The Mis-Education of the Negro

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Carter Goodwin Woodson
• Narrated By Anthony Stewart
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Here is an unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others. This timely body of work is from a man well versed in the American educational system, as well as educational systems throughout the world.

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem RenaissanceDuke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Jonathan Gross, 'Mack' Jay Jordan
• Narrated By Jonathan Gross, 'Mack' Jay Jordan

New York City, uptown, Harlem. In the 1920s it was the most exciting place in the world. Poets, writers, dancers, and musicians all came together and invented a new American culture - a dazzling and revolutionary African American culture of music and poetry and art. Everyone who was anyone wanted to come to Harlem and hear the music of jazz genius Duke Ellington, the rap-like stylings of Langston Hughes, and the classical lyricism of Countee Cullen.

Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor and Drama 1908-1947

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 46 mins)
• By William Shaman, Editor
• Narrated By Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Address", the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case, readings from "God's Trombones" by James Weldon Johnson, and much more.

The Souls of Black Folk

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 49 mins)
• By W.E.B. Dubois
• Narrated By Walter Covell
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W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise, The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line", a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the twentieth century," Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race.

Race Matters

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Cornel West
• Narrated By Cornel West