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The Hidden Histories of Black Americans

American history is filled with brilliant Black figures, but it has also consistently denied Black leaders, artists, and scholars the recognition they deserve, stealing their ideas and labor or hiding it from view. These histories shine a spotlight on the diverse contributions of Black Americans who have had an integral role in shaping and advancing the modern world.
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Hidden Figures

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Principles
By Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by Robin Miles
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Mathematician

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space, even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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By Rebecca Skloot
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences....

Freedom Riders

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Principles
By Raymond Arsenault
Narrated by Mirron Willis
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The saga of the Freedom Riders is an improbable, almost unbelievable story....

Trailblazer

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By Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Narrated by January LaVoy
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US....

Assata

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Principles
By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis - foreword
Narrated by Sirena Riley
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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list....

No Name in the Street

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By James Baldwin
Narrated by Kevin Kenerly
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This stunningly personal document displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works....

The Black Cabinet

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By Jill Watts
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
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In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship....

Invisible

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By Stephen L. Carter
Narrated by Karen Chilton
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As fast-paced as fiction, Invisible tells the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandson’s remarkable audiobook, her story is once again visible....

My Vanishing Country

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By Bakari Sellers
Narrated by Bakari Sellers
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, illuminating the lives of America’s forgotten black working-class men and women....

Be Free or Die

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By Cate Lineberry
Narrated by J. D. Jackson
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Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

Barracoon

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By Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by Robin Miles
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade....

The Original Black Elite

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By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Narrated by Karen Chilton
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From New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era....

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