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In this joyous collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universities, alumni both famous and up-and-coming write testimonials about the schools and experiences that shaped their lives and made them who they are today.
Edited by the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Ayesha Rascoe—with a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis, HBCU Made illuminates and celebrates the experience of going to a historically Black college or university. This book is for proud alumni, their loved ones, current students, and anyone considering an HBCU.
The first book featuring famous alumni sharing personal accounts of the Black college experience, HBCU Made offers a series of warm, moving, and candid personal essays about the schools that nurtured and educated them. The contributors write about how they chose their HBCU, their first days on campus, the dynamic atmosphere of classes where students were constantly challenged to do their best, the professors who devoted themselves to the students, the marching bands and majorettes and their rigorous training.
For some, the choice to attend an HBCU was an easy one, as they followed in the footsteps of their parents or siblings. For others, it was a carefully considered step away from a predominantly white institution to be educated in a place where they would never have to justify their presence. And for some authors here, it was an HBCU that took them in and cared for them like family, often helping them to overcome a rough patch.
For all, the pride in their choice is abundantly clear. HBCU Made is a perfect gift for each generation of prospective students and brand new alumni to come.
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"A nostalgic, jubilant ode to HBCUs, their breathtaking histories and devoted alumni. HBCU MADE gives clarity and scope to the impact these historical institutions have made in the lives of some of our nation’s brightest and most dignified talents."—Wayetu Moore, author of The Dragons, the Giants, the Women
"Warm testimony about critically important experiences."—Kirkus Reviews
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in promoting social and economic mobility for African Americans and in mentoring the next generation of Black leaders. In HBCU, Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters explore the remarkable impact and contributions of these significant institutions. Through inspiring personal stories and extensive research, Gasman and Esters showcase how HBCUs have mentored generations of leaders and scholars, fostering a collaborative culture of success and empowerment.
By: Marybeth Gasman, and others
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Black Faces in High Places
- 10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There
- By: Randal D. Pinkett, Jeffrey A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based on the authors' considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and as a minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and "intrapreneurially".
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purchased by accident, too much one way
- By mimi on 02-22-22
By: Randal D. Pinkett, and others
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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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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Powerful
- By Melissa Medley on 03-11-23
By: Imani Perry
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Dressed in Dreams
- 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
- Unabridged
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Dressed in Dreams is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America.
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Total throw back
- By Sheree M. Vasquez on 09-02-23
By: Tanisha C. Ford
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Unbought and Unbossed
- By: Shirley Chisholm
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic work—a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today—the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued the American system of government.
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A SOLID read!
- By Allitena on 08-26-23
By: Shirley Chisholm
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The Survivors of the Clotilda
- The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
- By: Hannah Durkin
- Narrated by: Tariye Peterside
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history. In this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the Clotilda’s 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research.
By: Hannah Durkin
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Invisible Generals
- Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals
- By: Doug Melville
- Narrated by: Doug Melville
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Red Tails, George Lucas’s celebration of America’s first Black flying squadron, the Tuskegee Airmen, should have been a moment of victory for Doug Melville. He expected to see his great-uncle Benjamin O. Davis Jr.—the squadron’s commander—immortalized on-screen for his selfless contributions to America. But as the film rolled, Doug was shocked when he realized that Ben Jr.’s name had been omitted and replaced by the fictional Colonel A. J. Bullard. And Ben’s father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., America’s first Black general who helped integrate the military, was left out too.
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The power of perspective
- By Xavier sapp on 11-16-23
By: Doug Melville
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The End of Love
- Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance
- By: Sabrina Strings
- Narrated by: Janice Lynn Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what they are looking for in a steady partner, they’ll often rely on superficial norms of attractiveness rooted in whiteness and anti-Blackness.
By: Sabrina Strings
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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John Lewis
- In Search of the Beloved Community
- By: Raymond Arsenault
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the "conscience of Congress."
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Some People Have Real Problems
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson
- Length: 33 mins
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A darkly funny short story about one woman’s reflections on the routes she’s taken through life and the detours she’s made along the way. Doubts and guilt swirl through her mind as she rides the train to her fertility appointment. Each stop stirs up introspective thoughts on her marriage, the loss of her baby, and the lover who got away—contemplations that push her ever closer to wondering if she’s made the right decisions.
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Out of MY head for a bit!
- By Leslie on 02-15-23
By: Brit Bennett
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Our Hidden Conversations
- What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
- By: Michele Norris
- Narrated by: Michele Norris, full cast
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. Even at just six words, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch, revealing, fear, pain, triumph, and sometimes humor.
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Excellent in every way
- By Deb Evans on 02-21-24
By: Michele Norris
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The Grace of Silence
- A Memoir
- By: Michele Norris
- Narrated by: Michele Norris
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Michele Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered, set out to write a book about “the hidden conversation on race” that is going on in this country. But along the way, she unearthed painful family secrets. In what became an intensely personal and bracing journey, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore “things left unsaid” by her family when she was growing up.
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The Grace and Power of Michele Norris
- By Marianne Murphy Zarzana on 04-10-19
By: Michele Norris
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Starchild
- A Short Story
- By: Camille Acker
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Karen Chilton
- Length: 53 mins
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In this evocative short piece, Candace worries that her mother, Annie, has reached an emotional breaking point. When her best friend loses her battle with cancer, Annie is acting in uncharacteristic ways, seemingly less concerned than ever about what her friends and neighbors think of her - a troubling development in her daughter’s eyes. But while Candace may think she knows her mother better than anyone, something deeper lingers beneath the surface, and times of hardship have a way of bringing us closer together than ever.
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Great Short!
- By Kindle Customer on 10-24-21
By: Camille Acker
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The Moment
- Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Author Bakari Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, examining national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to the question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives.
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Good starting historical entry
- By Leslie Creech on 05-14-24
By: Bakari Sellers
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Belonging
- A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
- By: Michelle Miller
- Narrated by: Michelle Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy.
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Get over it!
- By Dawn Starostka on 06-01-23
By: Michelle Miller
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Black Folk
- The Roots of the Black Working Class
- By: Blair L.M. Kelley
- Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.
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Brilliant, Devastating, Inspiring
- By Philana Payton on 04-10-24