African American Community

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    • Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
    • By: Tim Madigan
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous....

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    • Summer Beach, Book 3
    • By: Sunny Hostin
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Series: Summer Beach, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy....

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    • A Culture of Place
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks moves from place to place, only to end where she began—her old Kentucky home....

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    • A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
    • By: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,247 ratings
    • A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present....

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    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings
    • Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

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    • America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
    • By: Nick Tabor
    • Narrated by: Chris Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa....

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

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    • Love in the Limelight, Book 1
    • By: Brenda Jackson
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Series: Love in the Limelight Series, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Drop-dead-gorgeous Ethan Chambers loves his life as Hollywood's most eligible—and elusive—bachelor. Plus, the talented actor has just gotten an offer he can't refuse: a starring role on TV's hit medical drama. But it's the show's sultry makeup and wardrobe director who's got his pulse racing.

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    • Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
    • By: Ricky Tucker
    • Narrated by: Ricky Tucker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem....

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    • Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
    • By: Hanna Garth - editor, Ashanté M. Reese - editor
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays....

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    • An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
    • By: Anthony Pinn
    • Narrated by: Darian Dauchan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse it....

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    • A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
    • By: Linda Gartz
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Moe Egan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands....

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    • Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community
    • By: Monte Akers
    • Narrated by: Todd Waites
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]"....

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    • Bethel Community, Book 1
    • By: Sherman Cox
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Toles
    • Series: Bethel Community, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Perennial student Elliot James has racked up many degrees and is contemplating another to continue postponing life. When his roommate forced Elliot to find a job, he applied for the secretarial position at Bethel Community Church....

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    • Unveiling Mental Health in African American Communities
    • By: Deric Thompson
    • Narrated by: Teyanna Kam
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • In African American communities, mental health concerns often simmer silently beneath the surface, eclipsed by societal stigma and historical trauma.

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