transformative justice and abolition studies

Freedom Dreams

The Black Radical Imagination

By: Robin D.G. Kelley
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet

First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots... Read more

Abolition

Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

By: Angela Y. Davis
Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings... Read more

Migrating to Prison

America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

By: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a... Read more

Let This Radicalize You

Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.



Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the... Read more

Healing Justice Lineages

Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

By: Cara Page & Erica Woodland
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages

We reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

“Derecka Purnell, human rights lawyer and community organizer, knows exactly how challenging the concept of abolition can be. Her powerful activist memoir and abolitionist text charts her own lived experiences tracing her personal evolution toward abolition, alongside historical context and hard numbers on poverty, crime, militarization, and... Read more

If They Come in the Morning...

Voices of Resistance

By: Angela Davis
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & David Sadzin
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power.



One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals... Read more

Decarcerating Disability

Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

By: Liat Ben-Moshe
Narrated by: Margaret Strom
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of... Read more

Abolition for the People - Abridged

The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons

By: Colin Kaepernick
Narrated by: Arami Malaise, Sterling Sulieman, Kyle Chapple, Avi Roque & Victoire Charles
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing. Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices—political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those... Read more

Where Do We Go from Here

Chaos or Community?

By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for... Read more

"Prisons Make Us Safer"

And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

Myths Made in America: Book #9

By: Victoria Law
Narrated by: Melissa Moran
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.

The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners—a total of... Read more

The Purpose of Power

How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

By: Alicia Garza
Narrated by: Alicia Garza
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter
 
“Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time • Marie Claire •... Read more

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more