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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Ishmael Beah
Narrated by: Ishmael Beah
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.

This is how wars are... Read more

Sula

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a... Read more

Starstruck

A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Narrated by: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

“Sarafina El-Badry Nance—astrophysicist, activist, former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, and author—has written an utterly engrossing, absolutely accessible memoir of growing up Egyptian American with chronic health issues and a passion for the stars. El-Badry Nance’s evocative writing brings all the people in her story, from childhood on, to... Read more

All the Black Girls are Activists

A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

By: EbonyJanice Moore
Narrated by: EbonyJanice Moore
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”
Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice’s book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness as tools of liberation. 
All The Black Girls Are Activists is a love letter to... Read more

So You Want to Talk about Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race,... Read more

Simon B. Rhymin'

Simon B. Rhymin’: Book #1

By: Dwayne Reed
Narrated by: Dwayne Reed
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

A humorous and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a young rapper whose rhymes help bring his community together, from America's favorite rapping teacher.

As featured on Good Morning America!

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago... Read more

Raising Antiracist Children

A Practical Parenting Guide

By: Britt Hawthorne
Narrated by: Stephanie Keiko Kong
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne.

Raising antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne—a nationally recognized teacher and advocate—be your guide. Raising... Read more

African Mythology

A Concise Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Sagas, Rituals and Beliefs of African Myths

By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Gareth Johnson
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

This book is dedicated to exploring the gods and goddesses that the people on the African continent worshiped, and within the pages, you will find more information about: Background facts about African culture, such as art, foods, and traditions The most amazing and controversial African myths The top 10 infamous mythical legends and folklore... Read more

When No One Is Watching

A Thriller

By: Alyssa Cole
Narrated by: Susan Dalian & Jay Aaseng
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

“This is a must-read thriller rooted deeply in Brooklyn and its racist past. As the neighborhood makes plans for the annual block party, Sydney ends up battling more than the microaggressions from her new white neighbors. When her best friends go missing, her mom's prized garden is threatened, and a fake meter reader breaks into her home, she... Read more

Blood Like Magic

Blood Like Magic

By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

“How do you choose between killing your first love or being responsible for the end of the ancestral magic that your family has practiced for many generations? In a futuristic society that allows for social technological interaction with the glance of an eye, Sambury incorporates the Trinidadian-Canadian immigrant experience and casual queer... Read more

We Should All Be Millionaires

A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

By: Rachel Rodgers
Narrated by: Rachel Rodgers
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

“We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power is a great book that made me feel like I was not alone. I cannot describe the feeling of relief the book gave me, I run my own business and I struggle with imposter syndrome every day. This book helped me realize my feelings are valid but... Read more

Don't Cry for Me

A Novel

By: Daniel Black
Narrated by: Daniel Black
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

“This book blew me away. Through intimate letters to his son, Jacob reconciles with the man he could have been. Daniel Black creates a stunning work on ancestral heritage, history, family, and the legacy of being a Black man in America. Read more

Missing You

By: Erica London
Narrated by: Erica London
Length: 6 minutes

This twenty-four page book is written in the form of a poem that follows a young narrator as she experiences. A wide array of feelings, fears and memories while processing the loss of her beloved uncle. This audiobook is inclusive of facts and questions that both adult and young reader can benefit from.
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend

Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump

By: Ben Philippe
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.
In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe’s candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid,... Read more

Soil

The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T Dungy
Narrated by: Camille T Dungy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Part nature writing, part exploration of the African diaspora and Black identity, part memoir, Dungy puts herself in conversation with all the white nature writers who've come before - Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - and exposes how a monoculture in both cultivars and cultural backgrounds threatens us and... Read more

Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization

By: John G. Jackson
Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

The history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study the tomes that refer to the Nubians as the forbearers of our civilization is enormous. The world owes Ethiopia for its history, astronomy,... Read more

American Street

By: Ibi Zoboi
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews and multiple awards!A New York Times Notable Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book Of All Time * A Parade Best Young Adult Book Of All Time * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School... Read more

Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

“In this short and powerful book, Coates writes to his 15-year old son about his experience of being a black man in America. Cannot recommend enough! Read more

Rebel Sisters

By: Tochi Onyebuchi
Narrated by: Nkeki Obi-Melekwe
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

In the epic, action-packed sequel to the "brilliant" (Booklist, starred review) novel War Girls, the battles are over, but the fight for justice has just begun.

It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is now nineteen and living where she's always dreamed--the Space Colonies. She is a respected, high-ranking medical officer and has... Read more

The Idea of Prison Abolition

Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series

By: Tommie Shelby
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and... Read more