The quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people...
African American authors
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Auteur:Hurston, Zora NealeSommaire: - Auteur:Hurston, Zora NealeSommaire:
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora...
- Auteur:Irby, SamanthaSommaire:
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics...
- Auteur:Massey, BrandonSommaire:
Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with. One day while writing at a small Georgia coffee shop, he meets Mika...
- Auteur:Diggs, TayeSommaire:
This program is read by Taye Diggs. It contains sound design. A conversation about race. "Daddy?" "Yes, my sweet boy." "Why are those people shouting?" "Our people are shouting because we need to be...
- Auteur:Walker, AliceSommaire:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
- Auteur:Perkins, NicholeSommaire:
Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes listeners on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media, and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman.
- Auteur:Williams, TiaSommaire:
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer. Shane Hall is an enigmatic, award-winning author who shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly.
- Auteur:Broome, BrianSommaire:
A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction
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From the church pew to the dinner table, the stories and lessons handed down from one generation to another impart the messages that guide and shape our lives. The contributors to this collection distill that age-old wisdom into rich...
- Auteur:Angelou, MayaSommaire:
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and...
- Auteur:Grenier, Daniel, Marcoux, Jean-Philippe, Thurman, WallaceSommaire:
Résumé Il s'en passe des choses au nord de Manhattan, en ces années d'après-guerre. Le blues a envahi les têtes et les corps, les hommes et les femmes ont soif de liberté et de mauvais gin. Raymond Taylor, un écrivain...
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Auteur:Sommaire:From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers. This powerful and diverse, this unique collection spans three...
- Auteur:Angelou, MayaSommaire:
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography, starring Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their...
- Auteur:Angelou, MayaSommaire:
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and...
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With heart-stopping stories by Zane, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Joy M. Copeland, Robert Fleming, Terence Taylor, Francine Lewis, Brandon Massey, and 12 other established and up-and-coming writers, Dark Dreams is a must-have...
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Auteur:Wright, RichardSommaire:The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years. This version of the autobiography is presented in two parts, as authorized by the author's estate. Part one tells of his painful early...
