Best Sellers
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- Written by: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Oh.. the passion of Lawrence Fishburne!
- By Srijoy Kanjilal on 20-10-23
Written by: Malcolm X,
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Soledad Brother
- The Prison Letters of George Jackson
- Written by: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....
Written by: George Jackson,
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- Written by: Tom Burrell
- Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....
Written by: Tom Burrell
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- Written by: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....
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incredibly motivating, it's from his heart
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-20
Written by: Barack Obama
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Written by: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....
Written by: James McBride
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Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- Written by: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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What is feminism?
In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....
Written by: bell hooks
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- Written by: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Oh.. the passion of Lawrence Fishburne!
- By Srijoy Kanjilal on 20-10-23
Written by: Malcolm X,
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Soledad Brother
- The Prison Letters of George Jackson
- Written by: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....
Written by: George Jackson,
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- Written by: Tom Burrell
- Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....
Written by: Tom Burrell
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- Written by: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....
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incredibly motivating, it's from his heart
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-20
Written by: Barack Obama
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Written by: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....
Written by: James McBride
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Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- Written by: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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What is feminism?
In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....
Written by: bell hooks
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African Goddess Initiation
- Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
- Written by: Abiola Abrams
- Narrated by: Abiola Abrams
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul care rituals, tools, and exercises....
Written by: Abiola Abrams
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Slave Narratives Mega Collection: 18 of the Most Moving & Telling Memoirs
- Twelve Years a Slave, Up From Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), and more
- Written by: Solomon Northrup, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass,
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 115 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The slave narrative is a literary genre involving the autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans. A slave narrative gives an account of the life, or a portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave....
Written by: Solomon Northrup,
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The Godfather Notebook
- Written by: Francis Ford Coppola
- Narrated by: Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Mantegna
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola's notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic films....
Written by: Francis Ford Coppola
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- Written by: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms....
Written by: Safiya Umoja Noble
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The Radical King
- Written by: Cornel West - editor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Gabourey Sidibe, Cornel West,
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Much of America did not know the radical King - and too few know today - but the FBI and US government did. They called him "the most dangerous man in America"....
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Great Writing, Underwhelming Narration
- By Ajit Nair on 24-02-20
Written by: Cornel West - editor,
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The Humanity Archive
- Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
- Written by: Jermaine Fowler
- Narrated by: Jermaine Fowler
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all....
Written by: Jermaine Fowler
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Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
- Written by: Dennis Kimbro, Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Author and entrepreneur Dennis Kimbro combines bestselling author Napoleon Hill's law of success with his own vast knowledge of business....
Written by: Dennis Kimbro,
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The 272
- The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
- Written by: Rachel L. Swarns
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University....
Written by: Rachel L. Swarns
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- Written by: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic....
Written by: Maya Angelou
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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality
- A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
- Written by: Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love - foreword, Grace B Freedom - afterword
- Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity....
Written by: Sherronda J. Brown,
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Written by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Christopher Dontrell Piper
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society....
Written by: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- Written by: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship....
Written by: Wes Moore,
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Where Do We Go from Here
- Chaos or Community?
- Written by: Coretta Scott King - foreword, Vincent Harding - introduction, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, Dr. King demanded an end to global suffering....
Written by: Coretta Scott King - foreword,
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The Sword and the Shield
- The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Written by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the 20th century's most iconic African American leaders....
Written by: Peniel E. Joseph
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Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set
- The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Written by: Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard, Peter Holloran,
- Narrated by: Keith David, Jay Gregory, Martin Luther King,
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King, Jr....
Written by: Clayborne Carson,
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The Half Has Never Been Told
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- Written by: Edward E Baptist
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy....
Written by: Edward E Baptist
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The Need to Be Whole
- Written by: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Need to Be Whole continues the work Wendell Berry began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others....
Written by: Wendell Berry
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Written by: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....
Written by: Frederick Douglass
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Wake
- The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
- Written by: Rebecca Hall, Tyler English-Beckwith - adapter
- Narrated by: DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson,
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history....
Written by: Rebecca Hall,
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Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- Written by: Manning Marable
- Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Years in the making, this is the definitive biography of the legendary black activist....
Written by: Manning Marable
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I've Been to the Mountaintop
- The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Written by: Edited by Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard
- Narrated by: Andrew Young, Rosa Parks
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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His speeches stirred a generation to change - and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system...
Written by: Edited by Clayborne Carson,
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Written by: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....
Written by: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- Written by: Betty Reid Soskin
- Narrated by: Betty Reid Soskin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has witnessed a grand sweep of American history. In 2003, she created a blog that shares the story of her journey. Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure....
Written by: Betty Reid Soskin
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Love and Rage
- The Path of Liberation Through Anger
- Written by: Lama Rod Owens
- Narrated by: Lama Rod Owens
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? Lama Rod Owens explains....
Written by: Lama Rod Owens
New Releases
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
- Written by: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Walter Baron
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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"Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass" is a pivotal collection showcasing Frederick Douglass's eloquence, determination, and leadership in advocating for the abolition of slavery and civil rights.
Written by: Frederick Douglass
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Blue-Coated Terror
- Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
- Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.
Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
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Dear Bi Men
- A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure
- Written by: J.R. Yussuf, Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Narrated by: J.R. Yussuf
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers Blackness in a practical and deeply researched guide to navigating life, work, and relationships as a Black bi+ man.
Written by: J.R. Yussuf,
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- Written by: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
Written by: El Jones
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The Fire Next Time
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.
Written by: James Baldwin
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Notes of a Native Son
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
Written by: James Baldwin
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
- Written by: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Walter Baron
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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"Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass" is a pivotal collection showcasing Frederick Douglass's eloquence, determination, and leadership in advocating for the abolition of slavery and civil rights.
Written by: Frederick Douglass
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Blue-Coated Terror
- Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
- Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.
Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
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Dear Bi Men
- A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure
- Written by: J.R. Yussuf, Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Narrated by: J.R. Yussuf
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers Blackness in a practical and deeply researched guide to navigating life, work, and relationships as a Black bi+ man.
Written by: J.R. Yussuf,
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- Written by: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
Written by: El Jones
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The Fire Next Time
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.
Written by: James Baldwin
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Notes of a Native Son
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
Written by: James Baldwin
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The Radical Imagination of Black Women
- Ambition, Politics, and Power
- Written by: Pearl K. Ford Dowe
- Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women's political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision.
Written by: Pearl K. Ford Dowe
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DARE to Say No
- Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
- Written by: Max Felker-Kantor
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.
Written by: Max Felker-Kantor
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Muslim Cool
- Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
- Written by: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
- Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S., as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
Written by: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
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A Hard Rain
- America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
- Written by: Frye Gaillard
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests and movements against it.
Written by: Frye Gaillard
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Before the Movement
- The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
- Written by: Dylan C. Penningroth
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Before the Movement, Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery.
Written by: Dylan C. Penningroth
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- Written by: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.
Written by: Angela Y. Davis
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The Black Box
- Writing the Race
- Written by: Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, these writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society.
Written by: Henry Louis Gates Jr
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Black Roots of Mindset
- A New Era of Mental Health Advocacy for the African American Community
- Written by: Dr. Ketty Ngona
- Narrated by: Blaze Goldburst
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Delve into the rich tapestry of mental health within the African American community with "Black Roots of Mindset," authored by Dr. Ketty Ngona and eloquently narrated by Blaze Goldburst. In a landscape where mental well-being is often neglected, this audiobook serves as a beacon, illuminating the complexities and challenges faced by African Americans.
Written by: Dr. Ketty Ngona
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The Healing Tree
- Botanicals, Remedies, and Rituals from African Folk Traditions
- Written by: Stephanie Rose Bird
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Healing Tree celebrates the forest: its powers, spirits, magic, medicine, and mysteries. Author Stephanie Rose Bird shares how trees have provided her with personal healing, then allows us to share in that process for our own benefit and, by extension, provide healing for Earth's beleaguered forests.
Written by: Stephanie Rose Bird
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#SayHerName
- Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
- Written by: Kimberlé Crenshaw, African American Policy Forum
- Narrated by: Margaret Odette, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Joniece Abbott-Prat
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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#SayHerName provides an analytical framework for understanding Black women's susceptibility to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, and it explains how—through black feminist storytelling and ritual—we can effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for racial justice.
Written by: Kimberlé Crenshaw,
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- Written by: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 10 mins
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How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different." Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her own self-identity in the face of difference. "Through it all," she says, "I remain myself."
Written by: Zora Neale Hurston
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A Muslim American Slave
- The Life of Omar Ibn Said
- Written by: Omar Ibn Said, Ala Alryyes - editor
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling "the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language," as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic.
Written by: Omar Ibn Said,