Defend Black History

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new... Read more

1919

By: Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the... Read more

Black Lives Matter at School

An Uprising for Educational Justice

By: Denisha Jones & Jesse Hagopian
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts, Mirron Willis & Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

"Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system." —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author.



Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the... Read more