April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Michael Eric Dyson
• Narrated By Michael Eric Dyson
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A provocative, lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black president and first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair).

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Michael Eric Dyson
• Narrated By Michael Eric Dyson
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Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, "Nothing." Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Douglas A. Blackmon
• Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Charlamagne Tha God
• Narrated By Charlamagne Tha God
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Charlamagne Tha God - the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pissing People Off", co-host of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, and "hip-hop's Howard Stern" - shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing one's truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness.

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Tim Wise
• Narrated By Tim Wise

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, and a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.

The Fire Next Time

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 25 mins)
• By James Baldwin
• Narrated By Jesse L. Martin
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.

The Mis-Education of the Negro

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Carter Goodwin Woodson
• Narrated By Anthony Stewart
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Here is an unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others. This timely body of work is from a man well versed in the American educational system, as well as educational systems throughout the world.

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Carol Anderson
• Narrated By Pamela Gibson
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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 39 mins)
• By Malcolm X
• Narrated By Malcolm X

"Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail." Speeches and interviews from the last two years of Malcolm X's life.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Michelle Alexander
• Narrated By Karen Chilton
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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.

Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Michael Eric Dyson (foreword)
• Narrated By Mirron Willis

In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society.

Race Matters

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Cornel West
• Narrated By Cornel West

A master teacher and preeminent analyst of America's racial dilemma bridges the gulf between races in this national best seller. Cornel West is a professor at Harvard's Divinity School and Department of Afro-American Studies. He is the author of many books, including Prophetic Fragments, and with bell hooks, Breaking Bread.

Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Michael Eric Dyson
• Narrated By Cary Hite
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist. More than seventy-five million of his albums have sold worldwide, making him one of the bestselling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.

Shakur also gained notoriety for his conflicts with the law and time spent in prison.

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Narrated By Kevin Free
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America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency - at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem.

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 1 min)
• By Harriet A. Washington
• Narrated By Ron Butler

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge - a tradition that continues today within some black populations.

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Edward E. Baptist
• Narrated By Ron Butler

In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our chief form of innovation was slavery. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from their slaves, giving the country a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, a key raw material of the Industrial Revolution.

Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.: The Ultimate Collection

• ORIGINAL (17 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Martin Luther King

Listen "live" to one of the most iconic orators of all times in this packed-full collection of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches. King's rich and passionate style of delivery will transport you back to the era of the civil-rights movement, when King advocated non-violent resistance in the pursuit of equality and dignity not only for blacks but for all mankind. Seldom has any leader since inspired and captivated an audience worldwide and motivated a nation to action.

The Souls of Black Folk

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 32 mins)
• By W. E. B. Du Bois
• Narrated By Mirron Willis
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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” writes Du Bois, in one of the most prophetic works in all of American literature. First 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. Du Bois’ writing draws on his early experiences, from teaching in the hills of Tennessee, to the death of his infant son, to his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.