Literature African Nonfiction

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    • 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • How Drawing Shaped My Life
    • By: Jerry Pinkney
    • Narrated by: Scott Pinkney, Gloria Pinkney
    • Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
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    • Jerry Pinkney drew everywhere, all the time. It was how he made sense of the world—how he coped with the stress of being a sensitive child growing up in crowded spaces, struggling with a learning disability, in a time when the segregation of Black Americans was the norm....

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    • By: Rosanna Hansen
    • Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
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    • There is no animal in the world that can run faster than a cheetah. Yet, no matter how quickly they run from trouble, cheetahs may not roam the African plains forever....

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    • The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America
    • By: Selene Castrovilla, E.B. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • George Scott peered at the nearby Union fortress. Something miraculous was taking place! Three enslaved men had entered but had not been cast out. To Scott, the fortress must be a sanctuary. A place where the three would be safe from capture and harm....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America....

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    • Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker
    • By: Emmanuel Acho
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times best seller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young listeners edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation....

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    • How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
    • By: Shelley Tougas
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957....

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    • A Book About the People and Places of Kenya
    • By: Sarah Heiman, Arturo Avila
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Kenya....

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    • By: Ruby Bridges
    • Narrated by: Grace Capeless
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • When Ruby Bridges was just six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
    • By: Ibi Zoboi
    • Narrated by: Ibi Zoboi, Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experienced an American childhood....

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