Legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory made waves when his autobiography was first published in 1964 with its deliberately incendiary title. Audible is bringing it to audio for the first time and his son, Dr. Christian Gregory, shares why that word still carries so much weight and why his father’s message through activism endures.

Debut novelist Kiley Reid takes a fresh new look at racial and class tensions as she goes beyond the now-ubiquitous filmed scene of a Black person faced with a fraught confrontation. Listen in as she discusses all that went into her approach, including labor laws and hair stories.

After more than 30 years of silence, Robyn Crawford is speaking publicly about her lifelong relationship with Whitney Houston.

Abby West interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sean Tulien interviews Ibi Zoboi

Writer, mental-health advocate, and ex-poet Bassey Ikpi uses her memoir 'I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying' to dig into what it means to truthfully tell your story.

College student and Audible scholar Ama Hagan confronts a controversial work about Africa and its deep impact on her.

Colson Whitehead shares why he was called to examine the horrific activities in one Florida reform school through the eyes of a young black boy in his follow-up to the award-winning ‘Underground Railroad.’

The debut author of the highly anticipated new novel shares how in trying to write something that she’d want to read, where she saw herself reflected, she found a story that would touch so many more.

The author, whose emotionally compelling and nuanced narrative became the first memoir to win our annual title, talks about what it meant to voice his own story — both to him and the mother to whom he wrote it.