Inspirational Memoir Books Memoirs African American – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 4

Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Misbehaving at the Crossroads

The New York Times -bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work th…

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David Ritz, Etta James
Rage To Survive

One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she has known, and her troubled trip to stardom in this mes…

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Lee Hawkins
I Am Nobody's Slave

"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understa…

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Bitter Kalli
Mounted

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image c…

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Jason Allen-Paisant
The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…

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Lee Hawkins
I Am Nobody's Slave

"... tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped…

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Anjanette L Young
Past the Pain

Forty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young's life forever. Her story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a lo…

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George Brown
Too Hot

"Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house. H…

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Edwina Findley Dickerson
The World Is Waiting for You

With a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always …

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Nikki Giovanni
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998!"Nikki Giovanni is one of our national tre…

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Bridgett M Davis
Love, Rita

"From ... memoirist Bridgett M. Davis, a ... tribute of sisterhood and family, love and profound loss"--Provided by publisher.

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Bitter Kalli
Mounted

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image c…

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

"My Father's House is both a biography of iconic African-American Congressman John Conyers Jr. and his more than half-century of groundbreaking legislation, and a son's memoir of leveraging his own v…

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Megan Marshall
After Lives

A collection of six essays blends memoir and biography, exploring the author's life and passion for uncovering historical mysteries, featuring diverse figures such as a Buddhist hermit and a Black Power m…

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Phill Branch
The Double Dutch Fuss

In this raw and lyrical memoir as rich and insightful as How to Say Babylon and as vulnerable and provocative as Heavy, an Emmy Award-winning director chronicles his struggle to break free from---and live…

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as…

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Bakari Sellers
The Moment

"Toni Morrison once said, 'The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.' In The Moment , Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated, well-f…

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Ben Passmore
Black Arms to Hold You Up

AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF 2025 • From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force "Virtuosic . . . refreshing . . . Every el…

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John Obee, MacArthur Cotton
Mississippi's Black Cotton

"The literature of the Civil Rights Movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the Movement, including Martin Luther King and others, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cotton…

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