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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- By: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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Sidney Poitier
- The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward
- By: Sidney Poitier, Joanna Poitier, John Malahy, and others
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner, Sydney Tamiia Poitier Heartsong, Joanna Poitier, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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This book is a one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the wise, witty, and deeply personal speeches Sidney Poitier gave at awards ceremonies, family events, memorials, and more. His salutes to artists such as Dorothy Dandridge, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, and Denzel Washington offer fresh insight on icons of our time. Poitier's unforgettable cadence and voice are clear as day. Compiled by his wife, Joanna Poitier, this collection captures all that was remarkable about the man through his own words.
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Sidney Poitier
- The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner, Sydney Tamiia Poitier Heartsong, Joanna Poitier, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Black Psychedelic Revolution
- From Trauma to Liberation—How to Heal Racial, Generational, and Systemic Trauma Through Reclaiming Black Psychedelic Culture
- By: Nicholas Powers
- Narrated by: Nicholas Powers
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nick Powers charts how psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma. He shows how these medicines unlock a return to one’s self, facilitating an embodied experience of safety, peace, and beingness otherwise disrupted by whiteness—and explores psychedelics’ ability to transform individual wellness even as they transcend it. Drugs taken with therapy can heal. But drugs taken with a social movement can heal a nation.
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Black Psychedelic Revolution
- From Trauma to Liberation—How to Heal Racial, Generational, and Systemic Trauma Through Reclaiming Black Psychedelic Culture
- Narrated by: Nicholas Powers
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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Slavery After Slavery
- Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
- By: Mary Frances Berry
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
- Length: 6 hrs
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While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In Slavery After Slavery, historian Mary Frances Berry traces the stories behind individual cases from southern supreme courts to demonstrate how formerly enslaved families and their descendants were systemically injured through white supremacist practices, perpetuated by the legal system.
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Slavery After Slavery
- Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid
- Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
- By: Jeff Forret
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau set the rescued captives free. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests.
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The Price They Paid
- Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Play Harder
- The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
- By: Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Length: 11 hrs
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No sport has been more associated with America’s sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound with America’s traditions—with its notions of democracy and fair play—than baseball. And no professional sport in America has been as dramatically connected to social change as Major League Baseball when it became racially integrated the moment Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
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Play Harder
- The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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Firstborn Girls
- Four Generations, One Extraordinary Story
- By: Bernice L. McFadden
- Length: Not Yet Known
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On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died. She was in a car crash on the motorway turnoff to Detroit. For a few minutes, she was clinically dead. From the moment of her resuscitation, we follow a remarkable life, all the way up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Bernice’s family story begins in Sandersville, Georgia, with freedwoman Louisa Vicey Wilson in 1870. Her descendants survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, joined the ‘great migration’, cried when Dr King was assassinated. Wisdom, secrets, and fierce love are passed down through generations of women.
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Firstborn Girls
- Four Generations, One Extraordinary Story
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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My Father's House
- An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
- By: John Conyers III
- Length: 12 hrs
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A respectful, thoughtful, yet clear-eyed reframing of a national hero’s personal and political odyssey, My Father’s House is John Conyers III's love letter to his father and a record of his own journey. Conyers reveals a towering figure in modern American political history and an ordinary family man; a leader whose work in Washington necessitated his many absences as a father from a son coming of age in Detroit.
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My Father's House
- An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf
- On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
- By: Kaila Adia Story
- Length: 6 hrs
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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf fills a necessary gap in our understanding of how racism, transphobia, and antiblackness operate in liberal spaces. Black feminist and queer theorist Kaila Adia Story blends analysis, pop culture, and her lived experiences to explore the silencing practices of mainstream queer culture.
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The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf
- On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words
- Speeches and Writings
- By: Zinga A. Fraser
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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In the midst of her groundbreaking twenty-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, “Everyone—with the exception of the black woman herself—has been interpreting the black woman.” Edited and introduced by Zinga A. Fraser, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words gives listeners a rare opportunity to engage with the congresswoman’s powerful ideas in her own voice.
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Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words
- Speeches and Writings
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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Black Flora
- Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture's New Vanguard
- By: Teresa J. Speight
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Black Flora is the first book to feature profiles of contemporary Black experts innovating in the world of flowers. Author and longtime gardener, Teresa Speight, offers a beautiful intersection of flowers and community. This book is a homecoming, one that unearths the floral legacies of the past and present, while providing a source of inspiration for younger generations of plant-lovers seeking examples of successful Black floral artists and entrepreneurs.
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Black Flora
- Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture's New Vanguard
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Hollywood Blackout
- The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood
- By: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 10 hrs
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Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.
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Hollywood Blackout
- The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom
- By: Bennett Parten
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history.
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Somewhere Toward Freedom
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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Kidnapped at Sea
- The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
- By: Andrew Sillen
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the Philadelphia-based packet ship Tonawanda. In a best-selling postwar memoir, Semmes falsely described White as a contented slave who remained loyal to the Confederacy. In Kidnapped at Sea, archaeologist Andrew Sillen uses a forensic approach to describe White’s enslavement and demise and illustrates how White’s actual life belies the Lost Cause narrative his captors sought to construct.
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Kidnapped at Sea
- The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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Reclaiming the Black Body
- Nourishing the Home Within
- By: Alishia McCullough
- Length: 9 hrs
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Licensed mental health therapist, somatic healer, and eating disorder specialist Alishia McCullough understands that for far too many Black women, racial trauma’s seismic impact has disrupted their most essential relationship: the one they have with their bodies—and by extension, with their food. African Americans are disproportionately impacted by disordered eating behaviors, yet their experiences are frequently neglected by doctors and mental health experts.
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Reclaiming the Black Body
- Nourishing the Home Within
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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The White Peril
- A Family Memoir
- By: Omo Moses
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice.
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The White Peril
- A Family Memoir
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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No Human Involved
- The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
- By: Cheryl L. Neely
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 6 hrs
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Diving deep into the unseen and unheard, Neely uses personal interviews, court records, media reports, and analytical data to understand how and why Black women are disproportionately more likely to die from homicide in comparison to their white counterpoints. Sounding an urgent alarm, No Human Involved contends that it is time for Black women’s lives to matter not only to their families and communities, but especially to those commissioned to protect them.
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No Human Involved
- The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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Kindred Creation
- Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity
- By: Aida Mariam Davis, Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Aida Mariam Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections.
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Kindred Creation
- Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity
- Narrated by: Aida Mariam Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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If We Are Brave
- Essays from Black Americana
- By: Theodore Johnson
- Narrated by: Theodore Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges listeners to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life.
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If We Are Brave
- Essays from Black Americana
- Narrated by: Theodore Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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True to Our Native Land (Second Edition)
- By: Brian K. Blount - editor, Emerson B. Powery - editor, Gay L. Byron - editor
- Narrated by: Julienne Irons, Leon Nixon
- Length: 20 hrs
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True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches.
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True to Our Native Land (Second Edition)
- Narrated by: Julienne Irons, Leon Nixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 07-01-25
- Language: English
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