Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Audiobook (Free)

Along with his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, among our foremost comedians & most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events through the complicated history of black America.

A pal of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, as well as the forebear of today’s popular dark comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Small, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force to get more about Defining Moments in Dark Background: Reading Between the Lays than fifty years. As an entertainer, he generally kept it indisputably true about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a respected activist against injustice, he marched at Selma through the Civil Rights movement, organized pupil rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Local American and feminist privileges; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes to get Black Lives Matter.

In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the BLACK encounter. In his unapologetically candid tone of voice, he moves from African ancestry and making it through the Middle Passing to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating trip through time, Defining Moments in Black History explores traditional movements like the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, aswell as ethnic touchstones such as for example Sidney Poitier winning the Best Acting professional Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Vacation releasing Strange Fruit.

An engaging take a look at black life that offers insightful commentary in the intricate history of the BLACK people, Defining Occasions in Black History can be an essential, no-holds-bar background lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain.