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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
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Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.
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81. Our Kind of People
- Inside America's Black Upper Class
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-14-25
- Language: English
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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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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
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82. Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-17-17
- Language: English
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic....
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Post election tonic for the soul
- By LynneKLR on 11-11-16
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83. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-15-05
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....
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Important person, sing-song narration
- By Judith Evans on 03-05-22
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84. Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-18-21
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Race War
- By: Tim Wise
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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In this collection of essays, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America....
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Best book ever!
- By Ethel on 12-07-21
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85. Dispatches from the Race War
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-21-21
- Language: English
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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings
- By: Tyler Perry
- Narrated by: Tyler Perry
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....
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Absolutely Hysterical
- By Elijah Mathew smith on 08-20-07
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86. Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings
- Narrated by: Tyler Perry
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-18-07
- Language: English
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Why We Can't Wait
- By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Cotton - introduction
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963....
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Incredible
- By Miguel Concha on 02-02-21
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87. Why We Can't Wait
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Series: King Legacy, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical....
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History of African Americans after Emancipation
- By Queen aleta on 09-24-12
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88. The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-17-08
- Language: English
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- By: Betty Reid Soskin
- Narrated by: Betty Reid Soskin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has witnessed a grand sweep of American history. In 2003, she created a blog that shares the story of her journey. Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure....
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How she stressed Creole, but I guess it was a badge if honor not being regular black.
- By Satisfied customer on 05-21-24
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89. Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- Narrated by: Betty Reid Soskin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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Black Titan
- A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
- By: Carol Jenkins
- Narrated by: Susan Spain
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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A.G. Gaston, the poor grandson of slaves, was born in the Deep South in 1892. Over the course of his extraordinary life, he amassed a fortune of over $130 million and a vast business empire....
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Black Gold = Standing Ovation
- By 2Fresh on 01-20-16
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90. Black Titan
- A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
- Narrated by: Susan Spain
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-22-09
- Language: English
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American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- By: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....
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Deep, eye-opening, educational, life-changing . . . dramatic and engaging . . .
- By The Flash on 01-21-23
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91. American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-20-22
- Language: English
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- In Defense of Black Studies
- By: Colin Kaepernick - editor, Robin D.G. Kelley - editor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - editor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it....
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culture
- By Nerissa on 02-12-25
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92. Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- In Defense of Black Studies
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-19-23
- Language: English
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....
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Both a Bridge and a Battle Cry
- By Darwin8u on 09-26-17
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93. The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- By: Jason L. Riley
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative social theorists, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors....
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A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- By Wayne on 06-08-21
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94. Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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White Evangelical Racism
- The Politics of Morality in America
- By: Anthea Butler
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power....
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As a White Evangelical ... or Formally So ...
- By Wigwam on 05-09-21
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95. White Evangelical Racism
- The Politics of Morality in America
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-20-21
- Language: English
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There Will Be No Miracles Here
- A Memoir
- By: Casey Gerald
- Narrated by: Casey Gerald
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart - a generation searching for a new way to live....
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Read or listen or whatever you need to finish this book
- By STEPHANIE A. TOPPIN on 11-26-18
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96. There Will Be No Miracles Here
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Casey Gerald
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-02-18
- Language: English
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Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires....
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My goodness..get ready to be challenged
- By keishie23 on 05-13-20
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97. Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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Passing Strange
- A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
- By: Martha A. Sandweiss
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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A remarkable feat of research and reporting spanning the Civil War to the civil rights era, Passing Strange tells a uniquely American story of self-invention, love, deception, and race....
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Race and Identity
- By Roy on 03-22-10
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98. Passing Strange
- A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-24-09
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography....
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Excellent in so many ways...
- By Your Old Pal Sisco on 06-24-14
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99. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-07-12
- Language: English
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Killing the Black Body
- Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
- By: Dorothy Roberts
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years - using a Black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation....
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Terribly sad but very informative. Highly recommend.
- By Jaecey Adams on 01-17-21
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100. Killing the Black Body
- Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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