How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By Peter Moskowitz
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the... Read more »
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
How to Be an Antiracist
“Among the multi-faceted array of antiracist literature newly published in the last two years, Ibram X. Kendiās How To Be an Antiracist stands alone as a definitive source of history and socio-political critique, while offering a new paradigm of thought aimed at paving the way for correcting centuries of social injustice. Hearing this visionary and transformative work in Kendiās own voice will no doubt bring it all straight into your heart, humanizing his ideas, and firmly setting you on your own path to doing the work of becoming an antiracist.”
Noelle, Oblong Books
White Fragility
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this āvital, necessary, and beautiful bookā (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... Read more »
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to... Read more »
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
The Bluest Eye
“Toni Morrison was a visionary. This, her first novel, was my first foray into her work, and I found it approachable, yet deep with meaning. It borrows its structure from a childrenās Dick and Jane story, which Toni reads like a haunting incantation. Her narration of the entire book is flawless and stunning, like the text itself. The novel circles around Pecola, who rarely narrates but whose story is largely told by other characters, often children. Her story is traumatic yet minimally graphic, making it appropriate, even, for most sensitive readers.”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
#1Ā NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢Ā NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠NAMED ONE OFĀ TIMEāS TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ā¢Ā PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ⢠NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ā¢Ā ONE OF OPRAHāS āBOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGHā ā¢Ā NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT
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Hailed by Toni Morrison as ārequired reading,ā a bold and personal... Read more »
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
By Dee Brown
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brownās classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of...
Read more »The Making of Asian America
A History
By Erika Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
An epic history of... Read more »
So You Want to Talk about Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of todayās racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide
In So You Want to Talk about Race,...
Read more »How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
By Crystal Marie Fleming
Narrated by: Melanie Taylor
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our ānational conversation about raceāāand what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and... Read more »
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
By Michelle Alexander
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexanderās The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of... Read more »
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Christopher Dontrell Piper
Length: 18 hours 32 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS
FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION
THE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 āThe Washington Post
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2016
A CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF... Read more »
The End of Policing
By Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more »
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
By Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
“This book was so informative and a joy to listen to. Jason Reynolds has such a way with words, and with him narrating the book as well, you're swept up in the history being told. This is a perfect audiobook for high schoolers to listen to with their parents.”
Lizzy, Books & Company
A Colony in a Nation
By Chris Hayes
Narrated by: Chris Hayes
Length: 5 hours
Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregationreveals that racial inequality hasn't... Read more »
The Fire Next Time
By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960sāand still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - āThe finest essay Iāve ever read.ā āTa-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwinās early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the...
Read more »The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate... Read more »
Tears We Cannot Stop
A Sermon to White America
By Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
This program is read by the author
"Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." āToni Morrison
"Hereās a sermon thatās as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if...
Why We Can't Wait
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Dr. Kingās best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the cityās streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leadersā criticism of the campaign.... Read more »
The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks about Race
By Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, Korey Jackson & Susan Spain
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The... Read more »
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