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    • The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
    • By: Michael Harriot
    • Narrated by: Michael Harriot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 993 ratings
    • From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....

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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,776 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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    • By: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

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    • As Told to Alex Haley
    • By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
    • Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,339 ratings
    • 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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    • Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
    • By: Antonia Hylton
    • Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system....

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    • The Story of My Life
    • By: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,953 ratings
    • A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,654 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,830 ratings
    • The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

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    • When Race Changed Sight in America
    • By: Sarah Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • The award-winning art historian and founder of the Vision & Justice project uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,782 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
    • By: Ilyon Woo
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history.

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    • How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
    • By: Candace Owens, Larry Elder
    • Narrated by: Candace Owens, Larry Elder
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,986 ratings
    • Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the Black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • By: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,761 ratings
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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    • One Name, Two Fates
    • By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,221 ratings
    • From the governor of Maryland, the true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

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    • By: Carter Goodwin Woodson
    • Narrated by: Anthony Stewart
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,824 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,588 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • On Basketball and Ascension
    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • There’s Always This Year is a poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America....

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    • A History of Black America
    • By: Lerone Bennett
    • Narrated by: John Ridle
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • The black experience in America - starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961 - is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure....

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    • Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
    • By: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the Black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era....

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