African American Letters

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,865 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • Ode to Memphis, Book 1
    • By: B. Love
    • Narrated by: Ace Bentley, Georgie Kimble
    • Series: Ode to Memphis Series, Book 1, Ode to Memphis, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Can a good girl find love in a thug? For Lei Fifer, that’s the hundred-thousand-dollar question. When Lei, an introverted homebody, invites her girls over for a spa day, she isn’t expecting their conversation to shift to men in prison....

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    • The Souls of Black Folk, The Gift of Black Folk, The Negro & 10 Speeches and Letters
    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks Cast
    • Length: 27 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), was an author, scholar, sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, and civil rights activist. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University....

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    • The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President
    • By: Jeffrey Einboden
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president. By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries....

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    • The Forgotten Borough
    • By: Jahquel J.
    • Narrated by: Morris Kellswater, Charlie L. Wood
    • Series: Davis Family, Book 5
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • In the finale, everyone is battling their own demons. Messiah may have done something that could end her relationship with her daughter and husband. Has she gone too far, or like usual Messiah, did she know what she was doing?

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    • A Letter to My Sons
    • By: Imani Perry
    • Narrated by: Imani Perry
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
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    • Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world....

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    • The Prison Letters of George Jackson
    • By: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....

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    • Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
    • By: Hill Harper
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This latest addition to Hill Harper' s Letters series delivers visionary, compassionate responses to the real-life circumstances of inmates....

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    • Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
    • By: Bayard Rustin, Michael G. Long
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States....

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    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Christina Sharpe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake....

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
    • By: Jonathan Rieder
    • Narrated by: Joe Washington
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Scholar Jonathan Rieder gives us the first ever trade history of a landmark of American letters--Martin Luther King Jr's legendary "Letter from Birmingham Jail"....

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    • Wahida Clark Presents Publishing
    • By: Trae Macklin
    • Narrated by: Mr. Gates
    • Series: The Letter, Book 1
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The apology letter written by Trae Macklin to his wife Tasha Macklin from The Thug Series by Wahida Clark....

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    • A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
    • By: Tanisha C. Ford
    • Narrated by: Tanisha C. Ford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In this highly engaging audiobook, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots, and hotpants of the 60s; hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings; and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today....

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