No Fables

The New Negro

An Interpretation

By: Alain Locke
Narrated by: David S. Dear
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

"Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary…We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture, and discover in the artistic self-expression of the Negro to-day a new figure on the national canvas and a new force in the foreground of affairs.” The New Negro... Read more

The 1619 Project

A New Origin Story

By: Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

“This new landmark work of U.S. history, criticism, and art is forged of 18 essays that consider the relevance of slavery to contemporary America through the prism of such subjects as capitalism, music, and healthcare and poems and fiction that focus on key moments in the oppression, resistance, and liberation of Black people in America. Riveting... Read more

Tears We Cannot Stop

A Sermon to White America

By: Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

This program is read by the author

"Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." —Toni Morrison

"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if... Read more

Black Panther Party RSVP; Huey P. Newton, Black Power Black Pride

By: Geoffrey Giuliano
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political activist and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966–1982). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve... Read more

He Calls Me By Lightning

The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

By: S. Jonathan Bass
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original... Read more

Stokely Carmichael Black Power

By: Stokely Carmichael
Narrated by: Stokely Carmichael
Length: 52 minutes

Sit back and recount the greatest moments in political history! Broaden your knowledge with this title’s narrative on political events. Read more

Stokely Carmichael: The Life and Legacy of the Civil Rights Activist Who Led the Black Power Movement

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.” – Stokely CarmichaelIn the late 1960s, Stokely Carmichael would become one of the most influential and controversial figures in America, founding and leading new organizations while being meticulously shadowed by the country’s national security... Read more

Frederick Douglass

Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 36 hours 56 minutes

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *

“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading... Read more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Rebecca Skloot
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF... Read more

Left of Karl Marx

The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

By: Carole Boyce Davies
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded... Read more

Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Race and Ethnicity in the American West: Book #1

By: Art T. Burton
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of "eight notable Oklahomans," the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Bucking the odds ("I’m sorry, we didn't keep black people's... Read more

Until I Am Free

Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

By: Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Explores the Black activist’s ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppression, police violence, and economic inequality.

“We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”—Fannie Lou Hamer

A... Read more

Master Slave Husband Wife

An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

“Ellen and William Craft, married slaves from Georgia, pulled off one of the most daring escapes from slavery in recorded history. Ellen, who was able to pass for white because she had a white father, dressed as a very ill young man. The couple convinced people that they were master and slave bound for the North to seek medical care. After four... Read more

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

A Radical Democratic Vision

By: Barbara Ransby
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 21 hours 20 minutes

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.



A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital... Read more

Tomlinson Hill

The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black

By: Chris Tomlinson
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name.

LaDainian Tomlinson,... Read more

Walking in My Joy

In These Streets

By: Jenifer Lewis
Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful... Read more

Scenes from My Life

A Memoir

By: Michael K. Williams & Jon Sternfeld
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country
 
“Williams’s cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in... Read more

Black like Me

By: John Howard Griffin
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment fifty years ago. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family, and traveled to the South to live as a black man. What began as scientific research ended up changing his life... Read more

Finding Me

A Memoir

By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“A powerful story about self-understanding and determination to seizing the life you want. Read more

Kill 'Em and Leave

Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

By: James McBride
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul
 
Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied... Read more