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The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“A good book is always right on time! The Message is a moment in our culture that we can return to time and time again. Expect nothing but fire from Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read more

Cobalt Red

How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

“We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in our world even in 2023. Exposés like this force us to see and understand how our choices can affect people on the other side of the earth from us. Changes need to be made starting at the major corporations and then trickle down to the individual. Once we know what is happening we cannot un-know it. Read more

Make Me Rain

Poems & Prose

By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

“I would not call myself a poetry reader, but there is something about Nikki Giovanni’s poetry that speaks to me so deeply. Sentimental and comforting, Make Me Rain covers a wide range of topics, from quilts and rising bread to the social change we so desperately need in our world. Giovanni’s wisdom and understanding once again prove why she is... Read more

The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

“READ BANNED BOOKS. In this modern classic, Toni Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl in post-Depression Ohio whose desire to have blue eyes, to be considered beautiful by society, eventually drives her to insanity. Morrison excellently conveys the damage done by white supremacist concepts of beauty in this moving and... Read more

Mediocre

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more

On a Move

Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice

By: Mike Africa Jr.
Narrated by: Mike Africa Jr.
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians—by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family.""As necessary and powerful as it is... Read more

How to Resist Amazon and Why

The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!

By: Danny Caine
Narrated by: Danny Caine
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

“Danny Caine offers low-maintenance, actionable ways that every reader can support the bookselling business while educating us on why it’s important. It’s a quick and easy read and ultimately, something I feel every reader should know more about. A world without indie bookstores would be tragic 💔 Thank you to all of you incredible readers out... Read more

White Identity Politics

By: Ashley Jardina
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support... Read more

White Feminism

From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

By: Koa Beck
Narrated by: Koa Beck
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Written “with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women’s movements and feminist culture” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), this whip-smart, timely, and impassioned call for change is perfect for fans of Good and Mad and Hood Feminism.

Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and... Read more

This Land Is Their Land

The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

By: David J. Silverman
Narrated by: William Roberts
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Bloomsbury presents This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman, read by William Roberts.

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.

In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the... Read more

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning History

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

New York Times Bestseller

This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history
 
A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History... Read more

Under the Skin

The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

By: Linda Villarosa
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily

From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing... Read more

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

“Possibly one of the most important books I've read in the last decade. Caste examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America. Wondering how America came to this? This book has brutal, unflinching answers. Read more

The Palestine Laboratory

How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein
Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

** Winner of the 2023 Walkley Book Award for Non-fiction Journalism **
** Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing **
Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies.... Read more

Everything and Nothing at Once

A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

By: Joél Leon
Narrated by: Joél Leon
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

This program is read by the author and combines several original tracks from Joél Leon and his collaborators, Arthur Lewis and Trevon Squirewell, and a thought-provoking collection of essays. Everything and Nothing at Once is an all-encompassing audio experience.

For readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a... Read more

Speeches by Malcolm X - The Ultimate Collection

By: Malcolm X
Narrated by: Malcolm X
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

"Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail."
Speeches and interviews of Malcolm X. Read more

Except for Palestine

The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Mitchell Plitnick & Marc Lamont Hill
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“Yeah, yeah we all know how income inequality has skyrocketed in recent decades, but do you want to get fired up about it? Matthew Desmond targets the usual suspects in this damning manifesto, but he also asks complicated, nuanced questions about how all of us are complicit in the status quo. An important read for everyone interested in creating... 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

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is a powerful and thought-provoking tale of survival, resilience, and the search for hope in a world unraveling from climate disasters and social collapse. With unforgettable characters and profound insights, Butler’s vision of the future challenges readers to consider the importance of community,... Read more