There are a few different editions, and I suggest people go with the narrator they enjoy the most. I have too many favorite audiobooks to name.īlain: I recommend The Souls of Black Folk by W. I listen to audio books each morning when I work out. I am so moved by the choir of voices that brought these essays to life.Īre you an audiobook listener? If so, what are some of your favorite audiobooks? Have you listened to your own audiobook? If so, what struck you about the narration?īlain: The narration is so powerful! As part of the editing process, we read these essays until they were so familiar to us-but hearing them aloud takes them to another level. Four Hundred Souls contains a diversity of thought and style that we think is unparalleled. Our approach to Black History will surprise listeners. In two sentences or less, what’s something that might surprise Libro.fm listeners about your audiobook? Their commitment to a communal approach, in the spirit of Black History, led to the book’s inclusion of 80 contributors and 10 poets-in order to honor the many voices of Black America. Blain, and they tapped a community of Black leaders, scholars, and activists to record a rich, communal history of African America. Kendi wanted to try to capture this long and complex history. In late 2018, as our nation approached the 400-year mark of captive Africans landing in Virginia, Dr.
From journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Jamestown’s first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.” O: The Oprah Magazine “Two leading scholars of Black culture gather writers from across genres in this provocative, stirring anthology on the traumas and triumphs of African Americans across four centuries.
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