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No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin... Read more
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Locking Up Our Own
By: James Forman, Jr.
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
n original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics-and their impact on people of color-are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking... Read more
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Jake the Fake Keeps it Real
By: Craig Robinson & Adam Mansbach
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the first book in a side-splitting illustrated series from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight.
Jake can barely play an instrument, not even a kazoo. And his art? It’s better... Read more
An Extraordinary Union
By: Alyssa Cole
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past. Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in... Read more
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Sugar
By: Bernice L. McFadden
Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemporary fiction, praised by Ebony for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end.”A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the... Read more
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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet
By: Adrian Miller
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who... Read more
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Harriet Tubman
By: Catherine Clinton
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday).
Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But... Read more
They Can't Kill Us All
By: Wesley Lowery
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting... Read more
The Sun is Also a Star
By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Raymond Lee & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other.
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not... Read more
You Can't Touch My Hair
By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams & John Hodgman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • "A must-read…Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." –Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City
A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope... Read more
The Doctor Is In
By: Carl Weber & Brenda Hampton
Narrated by: Lynnette Freeman
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Kasen Phillips has the magic touch when it comes to helping his patients who are in dire need of counseling services, but when the love of his life winds up missing in action, Kasen's life takes a horrific turn for the worse. His office manager, Voncile Harper, is there to lend a helping hand. She's on a mission to shake Kasen from his... Read more
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Sing for Your Life
By: Daniel Bergner
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air).
"One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review
Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing... Read more
Original Gangstas
By: Ben Westhoff
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." -- Kirkus, starred review
A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur.
Amid rising... Read more
The Defender
By: Ethan Michaeli
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one... Read more
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil
By: Lezley McSpadden
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.“I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot. I didn’t see him fall or take his last breath, but as his mother, I do know one thing... Read more
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek & Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret-Oyeyemi's keys not only... Read more
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Medical Apartheid
By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Karole Foreman & Myra Lucretia ...
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Frustrated by the limitations of cross-race communication in her predominantly white town, a young African-American girl teaches herself to sign. Years later, Laurel uproots her husband and daughters from their downwardly-mobile, over-educated and underpaid life in the South End of Boston for Cortland County, Massachusetts. The Freemans are to... Read more
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If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless” (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best... Read more
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The Illegal
By: Lawrence Hill
Narrated by: Gideon Emery
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Keita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home-- a brutal dictatorship that produces the world' s fastest marathoners-- to live as an illegal refugee in a wealthy western nation, surviving on winnings from local races. But the government is cracking down on illegal immigrants, so Keita-- who will... Read more
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American Ace
By: Marilyn Nelson
Narrated by: Marilyn Nelson
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity
Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised... Read more
Negroland
By: Margo Jefferson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself... Read more
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This Way Home
By: Wes Moore & Shawn Goodman
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brimming with hard realities about the choices we make, the friendships we keep, and the unlikely allies we find along the way, this affecting novel helps to fill the gaping hole left by Walter Dean Myers’s passing.” —Booklist
“A taut, haunting tragedy.” —Kirkus Reviews
One young man searches for a place to call home in this gut-wrenching,... Read more
Carl Weber's Kingpins
By: Nikki Turner
Narrated by: Soozi Cheyenne
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber has brought together eight of the best Urban Street writers to participate in the most highly anticipated series of 2015, the Kingpin series. Every city has an underworld leader. In the Kingpin series, we will visit eight cities and ride along with that city's kingpin as he rules the streets. The... Read more
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