Finding Me
A Memoir
By Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Narrated by Viola Davis
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.
This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in...
Read more »The Memory Librarian
And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By Janelle Monáe
Narrated by: Janelle Monáe & Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become...
Read more »The Other Side of Yet
Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness
By Michelle D. Hord
Narrated by: Michelle D. Hord
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
A raw and powerful memoir about how resilience, hope, and defiant faith can lead to powerful transformation even in the midst of our darkest hours.
Media executive Michelle D. Hord has suffered loss at almost every major phase in her life; the most devastating being the murder of her beloved daughter at the hands of her ex-husband. Yet through it... Read more »
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.”
—Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
An essential, surprising journey...
Read more »Manifesto
On Never Giving Up
By Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
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 activism
Bernardine 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 »Righteous Troublemakers
Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
By Al Sharpton
Narrated by: Al Sharpton
Length: 10 hours
“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 »
Chasing Me to My Grave
An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By Winfred Rembert
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Karen Chilton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.
He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife....
Read more »An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
REVISIONING HISTORY
By Kyle T. Mays
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more »
Divine Disruption
Holding on to Faith When Life Breaks Your Heart
By Dr. Tony Evans, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans & Jonathan Evans
Narrated by: Dr. Tony Evans, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans, and Jonathan Evans
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
USA Today Bestseller
Read by the authors.
Learn how to work your way through life’s unexpected challenges with grace and find a deeper faith while on your journey. In this biblical and conversational book by Dr. Tony Evans and his four adult children—Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans, and Jonathan Evans—you will hear five...
Read more »Entertaining Race
Performing Blackness in America
By Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 21 hours 3 minutes
This program is read by the author
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop comes Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race.
For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist...
White Space, Black Hood
Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
By Sheryll Cashin
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.
The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all... Read more »