Bestsellers
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,115
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Performance1,979
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Story1,979
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our...
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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All About Love
- New Visions
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall714
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Performance674
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Story673
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...
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A vocabulary about love
- By Jess on 04-13-24
By: bell hooks
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,268
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Performance12,619
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Story12,560
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Mother Emanuel
- Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
- By: Kevin Sack
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
A sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack “A masterpiece . . . a dense, rich, captivating narrative, featuring vivid...
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Educational and Moving
- By Jeff McKenna on 07-11-25
By: Kevin Sack
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,245
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Performance11,807
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Story11,748
In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry on 09-16-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,751
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Performance4,131
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Story4,114
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire In...
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,115
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Performance1,979
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Story1,979
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our...
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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All About Love
- New Visions
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall714
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Performance674
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Story673
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...
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A vocabulary about love
- By Jess on 04-13-24
By: bell hooks
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,268
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Performance12,619
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Story12,560
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Mother Emanuel
- Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
- By: Kevin Sack
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
A sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack “A masterpiece . . . a dense, rich, captivating narrative, featuring vivid...
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Educational and Moving
- By Jeff McKenna on 07-11-25
By: Kevin Sack
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,245
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Performance11,807
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Story11,748
In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry on 09-16-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,751
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Performance4,131
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Story4,114
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire In...
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- By: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance93
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Story93
Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.
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Oppression is not relived at the end of one battle.
- By JKW on 03-05-25
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Medical Apartheid
- The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- By: Harriet A. Washington
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,287
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Performance1,086
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Story1,093
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....
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Sobering... but necessary.
- By Dr. Pepper on 10-27-16
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Black in Blues
- How a Color Tells the Story of My People
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance68
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Story68
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and Vulture A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry...
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So many lessons in this book
- By Christina the Teacher on 02-04-25
By: Imani Perry
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The Delectable Negro
- Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture
- By: Vincent Woodard, E. Patrick Johnson - foreword, Justin A. Joyce - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Stan Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance65
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Story65
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously....
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Necessary Reading
- By Airborne Infantry on 05-04-23
By: Vincent Woodard, and others
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,681
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Performance3,289
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Story3,275
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that...
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Sincerely grateful read
- By Kelvin Dixon on 06-08-21
By: Clint Smith
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,035
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Performance7,781
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Story7,731
James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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Shifting
- The Double Lives of Black Women in America
- By: Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden PhD
- Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry....
By: Charisse Jones, and others
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Ain't I a Woman
- Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,002
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Performance875
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Story868
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....
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Informative
- By Cj James on 07-23-19
By: bell hooks
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Pimp
- The Story of My Life
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,090
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Performance7,049
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Story7,043
A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.
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I have to thank Dave Chapelle for this...
- By arizzle on 01-06-18
By: Iceberg Slim
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Black Skin, White Masks
- By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox - translator
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance91
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Story90
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world....
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It was ok
- By Anne on 05-10-25
By: Frantz Fanon, and others
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The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,318
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Performance2,809
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Story2,821
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and...
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Insightful lesson in self-determination
- By Aneesah on 02-04-13
By: Wes Moore, and others
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history....
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From the beginning to the present
- By wakk on 12-01-25
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Last Folk Hero
- The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
- By: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall472
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Performance426
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Story426
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums...
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If you are a sports fan and over 35 years old, you have to listen/read this. Awesome!
- By betty sammons on 06-29-23
By: Jeff Pearlman
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The Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall870
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Performance654
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Story649
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....
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Worried at first
- By Phillip Goodson on 12-13-08
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Black Fatigue
- How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
- By: Mary-Frances Winters
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance264
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Story262
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people - and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects....
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Great Book— For Certain Audience
- By Taylor on 05-06-21
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Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall789
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Performance658
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Story652
What is feminism?
In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....
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Excellent Introduction to Feminism
- By Listens-a-lot on 03-29-18
By: bell hooks
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Our Kind of People
- Inside America's Black Upper Class
- By: Lawrence Otis Graham
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
""Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture."" —New York Times Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An...
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Great education on the elite black cliques
- By Taylormade713 on 12-02-25
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,142
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Performance1,834
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Story1,832
rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....
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Essays of 'life and love and strife and failure'
- By ESK on 02-08-13
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Blackout
- How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
- By: Candace Owens, Larry Elder - introduction
- Narrated by: Candace Owens
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,085
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Performance9,830
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Story9,778
It’s time for a black exit. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. Black Americans have long been shackled to the...
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Thought provoking!
- By Girl with curls on 09-16-20
By: Candace Owens, and others
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The Conjuring of America
- Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic
- By: Lindsey Stewart
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance87
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Story87
From a Black philosopher and the author of The Politics of Black Joy, an epic retelling of American history from slavery to Jim Crow from the perspective of the Black women who used magic and spirituality to gain freedom and reshape the culture of the nation. The Conjuring of America tells the...
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Yes yes yes!
- By NAS on 11-27-25
By: Lindsey Stewart
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall636
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Performance554
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Story550
NOW AVAILABLE UNABRIDGED ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity...
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Powerful
- By Gene R. on 10-26-21
By: Barack Obama
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Belonging
- A Culture of Place
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance25
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Story25
Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks moves from place to place, only to end where she began—her old Kentucky home....
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“The circularity of the sacred.”
- By Jasmine N. Bellamy on 07-02-23
By: Bell Hooks
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,622
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Performance2,342
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Story2,329
Pulitzer Prize, History, 2019
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era...
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The sound of rollerskating in sand
- By Rico X Ludovici on 02-06-19
By: David W. Blight
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The Need to Be Whole
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall127
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Performance115
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Story115
The Need to Be Whole continues the work Wendell Berry began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others....
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Necessary Reading for These Troubled Times
- By Jane Vandenburgh on 11-05-22
By: Wendell Berry
New releases
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Salvation
- Black People and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural...
By: bell hooks
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How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories
- Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
- By: Jonathan Lassiter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lassiter
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
This psychologist is frustrated. In the final stretch of his doctoral internship, Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter had just one more milestone to complete—the diversity project—where candidates insert themselves into a situation in which they’d experience what it’s like to be a minority...
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This book is NECESSARY!!!
- By Kendra Gamble on 11-29-25
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Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
- How the Black Church's Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
- By: Justin Giboney, Esau McCulley - foreword
- Narrated by: Justin Giboney
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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In his new book, Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around, AND Campaign cofounder and president Justin Giboney explores a compelling vision of how the Black Church's social action tradition can inspire hope and healing in the face of today's polarized culture wars. The spirituals of the Black church, such as "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around," were rallying cries during the Civil Rights movement, making clear the connection between faith and justice during marches and protests.
By: Justin Giboney, and others
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Black-Owned
- The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
- By: Char Adams
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. In Black-Owned...
By: Char Adams
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The Son of a Sharecropper
- Growing Up Black in Rural South Carolina “The Untold Story”
- By: Roger Leaks Jr
- Narrated by: Michael C. Vincent
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Step into the untold story of resilience, perseverance, and hope in The Son of a Sharecropper. Author Roger Leaks Jr. takes listeners on an intimate journey through the trials and triumphs of growing up Black in the rural South during the era of segregation, sharecropping, and systemic inequality. This deeply personal memoir captures the harsh realities of life in the early 20th century, including the struggles of sharecropping families, the impact of Jim Crow laws, and the unyielding spirit of a young boy determined to rise above his circumstances.
By: Roger Leaks Jr
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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
- Politics and Society in Modern America
- By: Joshua Clark Davis
- Narrated by: Victor Warren
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Police Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department headquarters, and blocking city streets to protest officer misdeeds.
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Necessary Reading
- By Amazon Customer on 12-02-25
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Salvation
- Black People and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural...
By: bell hooks
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How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories
- Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
- By: Jonathan Lassiter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lassiter
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
This psychologist is frustrated. In the final stretch of his doctoral internship, Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter had just one more milestone to complete—the diversity project—where candidates insert themselves into a situation in which they’d experience what it’s like to be a minority...
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This book is NECESSARY!!!
- By Kendra Gamble on 11-29-25
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Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
- How the Black Church's Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
- By: Justin Giboney, Esau McCulley - foreword
- Narrated by: Justin Giboney
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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In his new book, Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around, AND Campaign cofounder and president Justin Giboney explores a compelling vision of how the Black Church's social action tradition can inspire hope and healing in the face of today's polarized culture wars. The spirituals of the Black church, such as "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around," were rallying cries during the Civil Rights movement, making clear the connection between faith and justice during marches and protests.
By: Justin Giboney, and others
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Black-Owned
- The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
- By: Char Adams
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. In Black-Owned...
By: Char Adams
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The Son of a Sharecropper
- Growing Up Black in Rural South Carolina “The Untold Story”
- By: Roger Leaks Jr
- Narrated by: Michael C. Vincent
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Step into the untold story of resilience, perseverance, and hope in The Son of a Sharecropper. Author Roger Leaks Jr. takes listeners on an intimate journey through the trials and triumphs of growing up Black in the rural South during the era of segregation, sharecropping, and systemic inequality. This deeply personal memoir captures the harsh realities of life in the early 20th century, including the struggles of sharecropping families, the impact of Jim Crow laws, and the unyielding spirit of a young boy determined to rise above his circumstances.
By: Roger Leaks Jr
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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
- Politics and Society in Modern America
- By: Joshua Clark Davis
- Narrated by: Victor Warren
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Police Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department headquarters, and blocking city streets to protest officer misdeeds.
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Necessary Reading
- By Amazon Customer on 12-02-25
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1919 Red Summer
- The Hidden History of American Terror
- By: James G. Edwards II
- Narrated by: Ernesto Muñoz
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1919 Red Summer: The Hidden History of American Terror, James G. Edwards II uncovers one of the bloodiest, most erased chapters in U.S. history. Over the course of just a few months, white mobs attacked Black communities in more than two dozen cities — leaving hundreds dead, thousands displaced, and entire neighborhoods in ashes. From the riots in Washington D.C. to the Chicago firestorm and the massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, this gripping account reveals the racial terror that reshaped America’s future — and the chilling silence that followed.
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Languages of Home
- Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971-2025
- By: John Edgar Wideman
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in fiction. “A towering figure...
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The Painter's Fire
- A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
- By: Zara Anishanslin
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals.
By: Zara Anishanslin
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Shoulders to Stand: On Marine Corps Heroes from 1942
- By: LtCol David B. Brown USMC (Ret.)
- Narrated by: Matt Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Dave Brown with three of the book's Montford Pointers. Platoon Sergeant Charles Foreman, First Sergeant Jack McDowell, and Ambassador Ted Britton at the Twelfth Montford Point Marines Day on August 26, 2021Shoulders to Stand On: Marine Corps Heroes from 1942 takes a historic look at racism in the Marine Corps initially under the leadership of the Corps' Commandant in WW II who stated in 1941, "It is my unwavering intention to tell the General Board up front that, if it ever was a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites.
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The Nation the World Could Not Break
- By: Ernst Etienne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nation the World Could Not Break is the story the world hoped you would never read, because once you know it, you can never see history, freedom, or yourself the same way again. This is not just a book about Haiti. It is a book about the greatest victory against oppression in human history, and the global conspiracy to erase it. Born in fire on the plantations of Saint-Domingue, forged by men and women who had nothing but their bare hands and their unkillable will, Haiti became the first nation in the world to permanently abolish slavery, and the only nation where the enslaved defeated ...
By: Ernst Etienne
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Coming to Africa
- Historical Figures in the Founding of Liberia
- By: Gbitee Doryen Gbitee
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the untold story of how freed African American slaves and Black pioneers helped establish Liberia—the first independent Black republic in West Africa. Coming to Africa explores the Back-to-Africa movement and the role of the American Colonization Society in resettling freed slaves on African soil. Through vivid accounts of leaders like Paul Cuffe, Robert Finley, Bushrod Washington, James Monroe, John Kizell, and Zolu Duma (“King Peter”), this book reveals the struggles, resilience, and vision that shaped the birth of a nation.