![]() ![]() Bravo.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Go behind the scenes with the editors and producers of Four Hundred Souls, the year’s most astounding full-cast audiobook production. Listeners will learn and be moved, and will no doubt listen more than once. Offering the best of education and entertainment, this epic audiobook enhances Kendi and Blain’s transformative history project through the sense of humanity that only a person’s voice can convey. Discuss racism with every person of color who has time to share. Review on these books and recommend them as often as possible. The performances are straightforward or theatrical as appropriate, but they’re always engaging, and the variety of voices and styles sustains the listener’s attention. : Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Random House Large Print): 9780593402429: Kendi, Ibram X., Blain. ![]() Eighty-seven narrators comprise the full cast, including the authors of some of the essays and poems as well as other notable voices such as journalist Soledad O’Brien and actors Danai Gurira and Leslie Odom Jr. The book is divided into five-year periods that span 400 years of the Black American experience, and the audiobook transitions between each section via layered, echoing voices for a haunting, emotional effect. ![]() A heartfelt chorus of voices composes a well-researched community mosaic of Black American history in Ibram X. Book Review: Impressions of 400 years' oppression 'Four Hundred Souls' is a huge - and intersectional - overview of African American struggle Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868. ![]()
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