BIPOC Authors
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Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row)
By: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Narrated by: Carl Weathers, Jack Daniel, Wendy Shapero, Lanc...
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on โSlow Death Rowโ while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over... Read more
View audiobookForty Million Dollar Slaves
By: William C. Rhoden
Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the... Read more
View audiobookThe Leavers
By: Lisa Ko
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a... Read more
View audiobookGames without Rules
By: Tamim Ansary
Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistanโa tribal universe of village republics... Read more
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