BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevie...
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.“One of the greatest... Read more
View audiobookAdmissions
By: Kendra James
Narrated by: Mela Lee
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.
Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep... Read more
Hunger
By: Lan Samantha Chang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation... Read more
View audiobookYinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Narrated by: Ronke Adékoluejo
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
Meet Yinka: a... Read more
Culturally Responsive School Leadership
By: Muhammad Khalifa
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages... Read more
View audiobookFreedom!
By: Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Mar...
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Booklist Editors’ ChoiceWINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better WorldWINNER–International Literacy Association (ILA)–Young Adult NonfictionHONOR–2023 Malka Penn Award for Human RightsTop 10–In the Margins Book AwardThere is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place,... Read more
View audiobookLetters to the Sons of Society
By: Shaka Senghor
Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons—one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.
“A visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road... Read more
Manifesto
By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British... Read more
View audiobookRed Lip Theology
By: Candice Marie Benbow
Narrated by: Candice Marie Benbow & Karen Chilton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies
“Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into... Read more
Misogynoir Transformed
By: Moya Bailey
Narrated by: Moya Bailey
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural... Read more
View audiobookHow We Can Win
By: Kimberly Jones
Narrated by: Kimberly Jones
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”
“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if... Read more
Black, Brown, Bruised
By: Ebony Omotola McGee
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM.
Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to... Read more
All Day Is A Long Time
By: David Sanchez
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022"" One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January"" One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases"" One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January"" One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books” ""David Sanchez's first novel—brilliant, lyrical,... Read more
View audiobookHigh-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold... Read more
View audiobookWahala
By: Nikki May
Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
""Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth."" -- Washington Post""Great fun and extremely smart."" -- npr.orgNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Vogue * Marie Claire * Glamour * Essence * Oprah Daily * Entertainment Weekly * Bustle * PopSugar * CrimeReads * and more! An incisive and... Read more
View audiobookStrong Mama
By: Robin Arzón
Narrated by: Robin Arzón
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Mama and baby make one incredible team in this new picture book from New York Times bestselling author and Peloton instructor extraordinaire Robin Arzón.
Before I met you, I dreamed of you. This is the story of how we first met.
Ultramarathons. Bike sprints. Squats and deadlifts. Naps. Kitchen dance parties! All of it is in preparation for... Read more
Courage
By: Freshta Tori Jan
Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta’s school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends were murdered and shot. Her journey through... Read more
View audiobookOrdinary Beast
By: Nicole Sealey
Narrated by: Nicole Sealey
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017
A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey’s work is restless in its empathic,... Read more
A Hero of Our Time
By: Naben Ruthnum
Narrated by: Raoul Bhaneja
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Yellowface and American Fiction, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity that the Toronto Star calls "a powerful, unexpected reading experience."
Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate... Read more
Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Nile Bullock, Tatum Marylin Hal...
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a... Read more
Police Brutality and White Supremacy
By: Etan Thomas
Narrated by: Julian Thomas
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring original interviews with: Steph Curry, Chuck D, Yamiche Alcindor, Isiah Thomas, Jemele Hill, Craig Hodges, Stan Van Gundy, Mark Cuban, Jake Tapper, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Sue Bird, Kyle Korver, Rick Strom, Cenk Uygur, Tim Wise, Chris Broussard, Breanna Stewart, Rex Chapman, Stephen Jackson, Kori McCoy, Lora Dene King, Chikesia Clemons,... Read more
View audiobookRighteous Troublemakers
By: Al Sharpton
Narrated by: Al Sharpton
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
“This is the time. We won’t stop until we change the whole system of justice.” —Reverend Al Sharpton
In the summer of 2020, Reverend Al Sharpton stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, preparing to give the keynote address of theGet Your Knee Off Our NecksCommitment March.... Read more
Love in the Library
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in... Read more
View audiobookWho Are Your People?
By: Bakari Sellers
Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
Length: 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This inspiring book by New York Times bestselling author Bakari Sellers is a tribute to the family and community that help make us who we are. Perfect for sharing and gifting.When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, ""Who are your people?"" and ""Where are you from?""Children are shaped by their ancestors, and this book... Read more
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