A More Perfect Party
The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
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From an MSNBC Political Analyst, a riveting account of the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics.
In 1972, New York Representative Shirley Chisholm broke the ice in American politics when she became the first Black woman to run for president of the United States. Chisholm left behind a coalition-building model personified by a once-in-an-era Hollywood party hosted by legendary actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and attended by the likes of Huey P. Newton, Barbara Lee, Berry Gordy, David Frost, Flip Wilson, Goldie Hawn and others. In A More Perfect Party, MSNBC political analyst Juanita Tolliver presents a path to people-centered politics through the lens of this soiree, with surprising parallels to our current electoral reality.
Chisholm worked the crowd of movie stars, media moguls, music executives and activists gathered at Carroll’s opulent Beverly Hills home, forging relationships with laughter as she urged guests to unify behind her campaign. With the feminist movement on the rise and eighteen- to twenty-year-olds voting for the first time in American history, the Democratic Party and the nation were on the cusp of long-overdue change.
Zooming in on one party attendee per chapter, A More Perfect Party brings this whimsical event out of the margins of history to demonstrate that there is an opportunity for all of us to fight for a better nation and return power to the people.
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On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a massive victory for civil rights, the decision's goal was to give Black children equitable access to educational opportunities and clear a path to a better future. Yet in the years following the ruling, schools in predominantly Black neighborhoods were shuttered or saw their funding dwindle, Black educators were fired en masse, and Black children faced discrimination and violence from their white peers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If we ignore the problem it will get worse.
- De Tyrone Hill en 04-09-25
De: Noliwe Rooks
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Abolition
- Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- De: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrado por: Angela Y. Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, and speeches over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Laying a Foundation, Missing the Future
- De Unsatisfied en 01-10-25
De: Angela Y. Davis
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The Summer I Ate the Rich
- De: Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
- Narrado por: Ashley De La Rosa, Fedna Jacquet, Khaya Fraites, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Brielle Petitfour loves to cook. But with a chronically sick mother and bills to pay, becoming a chef isn’t exactly a realistic career path. When Brielle’s mom suddenly loses her job, Brielle steps in and uses her culinary skills to earn some extra money. The rich families who love her cooking praise her use of unique flavors and textures, which keep everyone guessing what’s in Brielle’s dishes. The secret ingredient? Human flesh.
De: Maika Moulite, y otros
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
- Grabación Original
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Imani Perry’s Audible Original A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain tells the dramatic story of her ongoing struggle with lupus—an autoimmune disease that attacks multiple organ systems—and what we can all learn from those who are grappling with chronic illness. It’s a powerful and poetic story that evokes the works of Susan Sontag, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Audre Lorde.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Melissa Medley en 03-11-23
De: Imani Perry
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Becoming Spectacular
- The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette
- De: Jennifer Jones
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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The Radio City Rockettes are as American as baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July. Their legendary synchronized leg kicks, precise lines, and megawatt smiles have charmed audiences for a century. But there is a hidden side to this illustrious national institution. Like Gelsey Kirkland’s iconic Dancing on My Grave, Becoming Spectacular allows us to walk in Jones’ tap shoes—beautiful and glittering, yet painful and binding. Bringing into focus the wounded life of a trailblazer, this searing memoir is also a triumphant celebration of a spirit who refused to be counted out.
De: Jennifer Jones
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Our Secret Society
- Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Tanisha Ford
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous event rivalling today’s Met Gala, drawing America’s wealthy and cultured, both Black and white.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected, In a Good Wsy
- De Amazon Customer en 01-14-25
De: Tanisha Ford
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Black Power
- The Politics of Liberation
- De: Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Rodney Tompkins
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still relevant!
- De eric lewis en 10-20-24
De: Kwame Ture, y otros
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Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Wendi Manuel-Scott, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Wendi Manuel-Scott
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
- Grabación Original
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The fight for democracy and social justice is a collective, ongoing project. And those fighting for justice today cannot afford to forget the remarkable accomplishments of Black women who were activists in the Civil Rights movement. Their lives and accomplishments are a testament to the power of activism and to the enduring and evolving struggle for equality. In her Audible Original, Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Wendi Manuel-Scott illuminates the lives of six extraordinary Black women—most of whom, regrettably, remain unknown to many.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pity this woman's students
- De Jennifer Quail en 02-15-24
De: Wendi Manuel-Scott, y otros
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American Oasis
- Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
- De: Kyle Paoletta
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the Southwest has already been.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical context for SW sprawl
- De Jesse P en 02-07-25
De: Kyle Paoletta
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Plundered
- How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
- De: Bernadette Atuahene
- Narrado por: Amir Abdullah
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city’s squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors, many of whom had owned their homes for decades, were losing them to property tax foreclosure, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes. Through years of dogged investigation and research, Atuahene uncovered a system of predatory governance, where public officials raise public dollars through laws and processes that produce or sustain racial inequity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable study
- De Sudsbren en 03-30-25
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In Open Contempt
- Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
- De: Irvin Weathersby Jr.
- Narrado por: Irvin Weathersby Jr.
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country’s landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Adera Causey en 01-10-25
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In My Remaining Years
- De: Jean Grae
- Narrado por: Jean Grae
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties. These laugh-out-loud essays cover everything from aging gracefully, what happens when you look for community and almost start a cult, befriending childhood demons, gender fluidity in middle age, the cost of being too fabulous, and the various gymnastics we do to avoid becoming our parents, taking us from her childhood in 1980s NYC to present-day Baltimore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her amazing voice and storytelling ability
- De Roxanne Shante en 03-20-25
De: Jean Grae
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Who Better Than You?
- The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big
- De: Will Packer
- Narrado por: Will Packer, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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The billion-dollar Hollywood producer provides a master mentorship by sharing secrets to success honed from working with the biggest stars in the world. Whether you’re just starting out or ready to make a major move, Who Better Than You? is a wildly entertaining roadmap to being successful in an unpredictable world, featuring behind-the-scenes Hollywood lessons, empowering guidance, and indispensable encouragement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh What Fun!
- De Anonymous User en 04-26-25
De: Will Packer
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Low-Hanging Fruit
- Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda
- De: Randy Rainbow
- Narrado por: Randy Rainbow
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Randy Rainbow has a few things on his mind that he wants to talk about. As a savvy social commentator tuned into the public discourse, his unfailing intuition tells him that the perspective everyone in America is clamoring for is that of a privileged white male complaining about a bunch of shit. While writing his New York Times bestseller Playing With Myself, Randy saw an America in crisis. He knew that what the country needed to get back on its high heels was a hard-hitting gay agenda and here it is—Low Hanging Fruit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book is a let down. First book is awesome this on is yuck
- De Michelle en 10-09-24
De: Randy Rainbow
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Brokers of Deceit
- How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
- De: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrado por: Curtis Michael Holland
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States' involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting take on history
- De Nancy en 02-17-25
De: Rashid Khalidi
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
- De: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrado por: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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One of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how we have the power to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We Are The Leaders We Have Been Waiting For
- De Robin Raine en 09-03-24
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Langston Hughes
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 48 m
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience. Traversing a wide range of settings—including the jazz clubs of Harlem, expansive natural landscapes, and seaside taverns—Hughes’s voice as a poet ties these various places together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Melancholy Magic
- De Pri_ncess_pri en 03-31-25
De: Langston Hughes
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty—along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps—as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cannot be antiracist without the ties that bind
- De marwalk en 08-25-24
De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A More Perfect Party
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- Giezel Garnett
- 04-12-25
Chisholm trailblazing fight for the people of America
Chisolm’s historic journey in Congress and the first woman and black woman to run for President.
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- SAOT66
- 01-15-25
Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll
Great book about two African Americans who made their marks in history—-one ran for President of the United States while the other was a well recognized actress. The two of them supported Shirley Chisholm’s run for President. Even though Shirley Chisholm wasn’t elected President, she had been helped by the African American community in her run by such people as Flip Wilson and Harry Belafonte. In 1972. Well written and read by the author, I highly recommend this book.
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