Buy or borrow this book! Support your local independent bookseller
Find it in a WorldCat library
Compare prices at major online bookstores
|
|
An audio celebration of black history -- and culture -- is in order this month. Here's a brief selection of titles, some new, some not so new, you may want to listen in on.
Three volumes of Maya Angelou's best-loved poetry -- Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (0679455779), I Shall Not Be Moved (0679455760), and Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (0679455787) (Random House Audiobooks, $7.95, 30 minutes each) -- have been recently recorded by Angelou, whose voice is as deeply moving as her words.
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison reads aloud from her superb Song of Solomon (Random House Audiobooks, $18, 3 hours, 0394550382) and, with Ruby Dee, her beautiful, heartbreaking novel, The Bluest Eye (Random House Audiobooks, $17, 3 hours, 0679434747).
Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany were among the first African American professional women in New York and were 102 and 104 when they wrote their first bestseller, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (Audio Renaissance, $16.95, 3 hours, 1559272988). This truly dynamic duo shares a century of history and their personal portrait of the growth of black freedom and the black middle class. Read by Whoopi Goldberg, with an introduction by the authors.
Who would have thought it possible that Nelson Mandela would walk out of jail, out of 27 years of imprisonment on Robben Island, to lead his country and abolish apartheid in South Africa? He stands as a hero for black and white alike, and his story told in Long Walk to Freedom (Time Warner AudioBooks, $23, 6 hours, 1570420572), read here by Danny Glover, should be heard again and again.
Andrew Young stood beside Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout an extraordinary period in our recent history and now evokes the passion and the heartache of that time in An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (HarperAudio, $18, 3 hours, 069451702X). Young, our former Ambassador to the United Nations, reads.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's Sunday Morning.
©1997, ProMotion, inc.