Bestsellers
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,558
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Performance12,106
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Story12,047
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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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry on 09-16-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,464
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Performance12,806
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Story12,747
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Pimp
- The Story of My Life
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,125
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Performance7,080
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Story7,074
A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.
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I have to thank Dave Chapelle for this...
- By arizzle on 01-06-18
By: Iceberg Slim
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,819
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Performance4,194
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Story4,177
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire In...
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,477
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Performance3,047
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Story3,034
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from...
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,114
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Performance7,854
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Story7,804
James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,558
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Performance12,106
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Story12,047
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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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry on 09-16-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,464
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Performance12,806
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Story12,747
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Pimp
- The Story of My Life
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,125
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Performance7,080
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Story7,074
A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.
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I have to thank Dave Chapelle for this...
- By arizzle on 01-06-18
By: Iceberg Slim
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,819
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Performance4,194
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Story4,177
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire In...
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,477
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Performance3,047
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Story3,034
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from...
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,114
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Performance7,854
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Story7,804
James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,359
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Performance2,848
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Story2,860
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and...
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Insightful lesson in self-determination
- By Aneesah on 02-04-13
By: Wes Moore, and others
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,727
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Performance3,332
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Story3,318
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that...
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Sincerely grateful read
- By Kelvin Dixon on 06-08-21
By: Clint Smith
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The Delectable Negro
- Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture
- By: Vincent Woodard, E. Patrick Johnson - foreword, Justin A. Joyce - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Stan Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance83
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Story83
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part...
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Necessary Reading
- By Airborne Infantry on 05-04-23
By: Vincent Woodard, and others
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,667
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Performance8,605
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Story8,628
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn...
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- By Cynthia on 09-18-16
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Sundown Towns
- A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
- By: James Loewen
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall249
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Performance207
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Story201
Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design. Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen won the National Book Award for his New York Times best seller Lies My Teacher Told Me...
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Honest Reportage on American Racial's Shame
- By Anonymous on 12-26-08
By: James Loewen
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall675
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Performance590
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Story586
NOW AVAILABLE UNABRIDGED ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity...
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Powerful
- By Gene R. on 10-26-21
By: Barack Obama
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,167
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Performance1,858
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Story1,856
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....
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Essays of 'life and love and strife and failure'
- By ESK on 02-08-13
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Black Skin, White Masks
- By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox - translator
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance99
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Story98
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of...
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Informing and thought provoking.
- By Anonymous on 02-07-26
By: Frantz Fanon, and others
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall9,865
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Performance6,981
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Story6,938
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated...
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My Fellow Conservatives, Give This A Listen
- By Dallas D.L. on 02-12-15
By: Barack Obama
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One Person, No Vote
- How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
- By: Carol Anderson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall380
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Performance326
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Story322
From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of White Rage, the startling - and timely - history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin....
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Revealing
- By Marina on 03-15-19
By: Carol Anderson
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Redemption
- The Last Battle of the Civil War
- By: Nicholas Lemann
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance38
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Story39
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his...
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A good accouting of the post Civil War suffering
- By KMB Consumer on 08-10-07
By: Nicholas Lemann
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Black Fatigue
- How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
- By: Mary-Frances Winters
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall314
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Performance269
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Story267
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people - and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects....
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Great Book— For Certain Audience
- By Taylor on 05-06-21
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White Evangelical Racism
- The Politics of Morality in America
- By: Anthea Butler
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall591
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Performance514
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Story513
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting...
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As a White Evangelical ... or Formally So ...
- By S.Whigham on 05-09-21
By: Anthea Butler
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
- By: Anne Moody
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall693
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Performance606
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Story605
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of...
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A Gripping, Visceral Account of 1960's Reality
- By Philomena on 01-03-13
By: Anne Moody
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Teaching Critical Thinking
- Practical Wisdom
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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Story20
In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
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Must read
- By Coach on 01-04-26
By: Bell Hooks
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Ain't I a Woman
- Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,010
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Performance883
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Story876
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Black womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's...
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Informative
- By Cj James on 07-23-19
By: Bell Hooks
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
- By: Carter Goodwin Woodson
- Narrated by: Anthony Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,905
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Performance1,597
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Story1,595
An unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others....
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A Classic and Unexpected Delight
- By Theo Horesh on 02-28-13
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Dear Black Girls
- How to Be True to You
- By: A'ja Wilson
- Narrated by: A'ja Wilson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall463
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Performance448
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Story449
This program is read by the author. “Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A’ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves. Dear Black Girls is a must-read for every Black girl out there.” ―Gabrielle Union, New York Times...
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Touching and encouraging
- By Tanya on 04-12-26
By: A'ja Wilson
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Black in Blues
- How a Color Tells the Story of My People
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance105
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Story105
FINALIST, LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN AUDIOBOOK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and Vulture A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and...
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So many lessons in this book
- By Christina the Teacher on 02-04-25
By: Imani Perry
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall774
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Performance677
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Story672
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of 15 essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class and propounds...
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One of the most important things I have ever listened to.
- By Jayrod on 11-16-16
By: Audre Lorde
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
- By: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall284
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Performance244
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Story243
Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....
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more books about hoodo and atr By black writers!!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-15-20
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
- By: James H. Cone
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall582
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Performance479
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Story475
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk...
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Great work to listen to on July 4th 2020
- By Jason Como on 07-04-20
By: James H. Cone
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- By: Antonia Hylton
- Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall257
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Performance233
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Story233
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums. "A book that left me breathless." —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed "Fascinating." —The...
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Glad to have added this to my cerebral quarters
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 04-25-24
By: Antonia Hylton
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- And Other Conversations About Race
- By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,284
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Performance1,950
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Story1,925
The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a...
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Key Takeaway: Everything is White People's Fault
- By David Larson on 09-07-17
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Black Is My Ethnicity
- American Is My Nationality - Reflowable Version
- By: Woody R Clermont, Devon J Francois
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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What does it mean to say that Black is an ethnicity and American is a nationality? This book confronts that question directly, challenging assumptions that have long gone unexamined. It argues that Black identity is not a vague label or a social convenience, but a distinct cultural and historical inheritance shaped by shared experience, memory, and creative expression. Through history, law, culture, and lived reality, this work traces how Black identity in America developed as something far more than a category imposed from the outside. It is a peoplehood forged through struggle, resilience...
By: Woody R Clermont, and others
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Gather
- Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
- By: Ashanté M. Reese
- Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M...
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Letters to a Young Brother
- MANifest Your Destiny
- By: Hill Harper
- Narrated by: Hill Harper
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school...
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Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877
- Heritage of Mississippi Series
- By: Jere Nash
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the economy, and to congressional initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877 is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not.
By: Jere Nash
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Representative American Negroes
- By: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 28 mins
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In Representative American Negroes, Paul Laurence Dunbar steps away from fiction to present a series of powerful, intimate portraits of men and women who met the challenges of their era with unyielding dignity and brilliant intellect. Writing with the precision of a historian and the soul of a poet, Dunbar captures more than biography—he captures the spirit of an era. These sketches reflect perseverance in the face of prejudice and quiet distinction in an age of loud opposition.
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THE MASTER SCRIPT: THE GILDED SPUR
- The Case for the Technical and Demographic Restoration of the West
- By: Amali Quest
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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THE WEST WASN’T WON. IT WAS REBRANDED. If you close your eyes and picture a cowboy, you see a specific image: the stoic white hero of the silver screen. But that image is a redaction. It is a "Gilded Spur" a thin layer of gold plated over a much older, deeper, and more diverse iron foundation. In the debut volume of The Master Script series, historian and entrepreneur Amali Quest performs a forensic audit of the American Frontier. Moving beyond "untold stories," this book exposes the Demographic Heist that traded the gritty, multicultural reality of the trail for a polished Hollywood myth...
By: Amali Quest
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Black Is My Ethnicity
- American Is My Nationality - Reflowable Version
- By: Woody R Clermont, Devon J Francois
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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What does it mean to say that Black is an ethnicity and American is a nationality? This book confronts that question directly, challenging assumptions that have long gone unexamined. It argues that Black identity is not a vague label or a social convenience, but a distinct cultural and historical inheritance shaped by shared experience, memory, and creative expression. Through history, law, culture, and lived reality, this work traces how Black identity in America developed as something far more than a category imposed from the outside. It is a peoplehood forged through struggle, resilience...
By: Woody R Clermont, and others
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Gather
- Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
- By: Ashanté M. Reese
- Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
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A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M...
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Letters to a Young Brother
- MANifest Your Destiny
- By: Hill Harper
- Narrated by: Hill Harper
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Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school...
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Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877
- Heritage of Mississippi Series
- By: Jere Nash
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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Following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the economy, and to congressional initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877 is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not.
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In Representative American Negroes, Paul Laurence Dunbar steps away from fiction to present a series of powerful, intimate portraits of men and women who met the challenges of their era with unyielding dignity and brilliant intellect. Writing with the precision of a historian and the soul of a poet, Dunbar captures more than biography—he captures the spirit of an era. These sketches reflect perseverance in the face of prejudice and quiet distinction in an age of loud opposition.
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THE MASTER SCRIPT: THE GILDED SPUR
- The Case for the Technical and Demographic Restoration of the West
- By: Amali Quest
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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THE WEST WASN’T WON. IT WAS REBRANDED. If you close your eyes and picture a cowboy, you see a specific image: the stoic white hero of the silver screen. But that image is a redaction. It is a "Gilded Spur" a thin layer of gold plated over a much older, deeper, and more diverse iron foundation. In the debut volume of The Master Script series, historian and entrepreneur Amali Quest performs a forensic audit of the American Frontier. Moving beyond "untold stories," this book exposes the Demographic Heist that traded the gritty, multicultural reality of the trail for a polished Hollywood myth...
By: Amali Quest