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Marching to the Mountaintop
- How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
- Written by: Ann Bausum
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more than one occasion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King added his voice to the struggle in what became the final speech of his life.
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Marching to the Mountaintop
- How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-04
- Language: English
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Us and Them
- A History of Intolerence in America
- Written by: Jim Carnes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Wrongful intolerance has existed in American society for more than four centuries. Us and Them illuminates the shadowy corners of our national past and traces the country’s continuing efforts to measure up to its lofty ideals. Through 14 dramatic narratives, listeners witness epic struggles that shaped our collective identity. These and eight other forgotten incidents of history come to life in clear and vibrant prose.
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Us and Them
- A History of Intolerence in America
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-01
- Language: English
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The Cannibals
- Written by: Iain Lawrence
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Tom Tin, an innocent convict, is aboard a ship bound for Australia where he will serve a lengthy sentence in prison. To avoid this horrible fate, Tom jumps ship to nearby islands, but finds that the refuge he hoped for may just be another struggle for his freedom - and his life. Acclaimed author Iain Lawrence delivers another exotic adventure tale for young readers.
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The Cannibals
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-23
- Language: English
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Stories of My Life
- Written by: Katherine Paterson
- Narrated by: Laurie Birmingham
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children's books. Told with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson's tales reveal details about her life from her childhood with missionary parents, to living as a single woman in Japan, to raising four children in suburban Maryland with her minister husband.
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Stories of My Life
- Narrated by: Laurie Birmingham
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-28
- Language: English
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Witch Hunt
- Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
- Written by: Marc Aronson
- Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has begun. The witch trials will eventually claim 25 lives, shatter the community, and forever shape the American social conscience
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Witch Hunt
- Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
- Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2013-06-12
- Language: English
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The Liars of Mariposa Island
- Written by: Jennifer Mathieu
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Maria Liatis, Christian Barillas
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And the summer of 1986 promises to be extra special when she meets J.C., the new boy in town, whose kisses make Elena feel like she's been transported to a new world. Joaquin Finney can't imagine why anyone would want to come to Mariposa Island. He just graduated from high school and dreams about going to California to find his father and escape his mother's manipulation.
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The Liars of Mariposa Island
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Maria Liatis, Christian Barillas
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-17
- Language: English
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
- Written by: Amy Brashear
- Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When 16-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited.
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
- Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Language: English
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
- Written by: Angela Shanté
- Narrated by: Angela Shanté
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Set in New York City in the ’90s, Angela Shanté’s poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, this timeless book illuminates the places where Black girls are nurtured or boxed in, through stories and poems about expectations, exploitation, love, loss, and self-realization.
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
- Narrated by: Angela Shanté
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-28
- Language: English
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Rising from the Ashes
- Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
- Written by: Paula Yoo
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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On April 29, 1992, following the acquittal of four police officers charged with the beating and arrest of Rodney King and the earlier killing of teenager Latasha Harlins, the city of Los Angeles erupted in violence. Many of these events were centered on the city’s Koreatown, where tensions between the Black and Korean American communities had simmered for years, fueled by economic challenges and redlining and enflamed by sensationalized and racist media.
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Rising from the Ashes
- Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-18
- Language: English
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Those Who Saw the Sun
- African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
- Written by: Jaha Nailah Avery
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Arnell Powell, Jaha Nailah Avery
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years. These interviews have been a personal passion project for years as she’s traveled across the South meeting with elders and hearing their stories.
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Those Who Saw the Sun
- African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Arnell Powell, Jaha Nailah Avery
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Ethel's Song
- Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
- Written by: Barbara Krasner
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Ethel Rosenberg's story is seldom told and not widely known. What tends to be told is the life of a convicted spy who was killed for her beliefs, a victim of social injustice. Barbara Krasner pays tribute to this complex and misunderstood woman and lets her sing—sing out about her childhood, her dreams to perform on stage, her love for a college boy with shared ideals, her tender love for her husband and sons, and her deep love for what she felt was right for her country and the world.
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Ethel's Song
- Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-21
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains
- African American Slave Resistance
- Written by: William Loren Katz, Robin D.G. Kelley
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, Breaking the Chains offers a thoroughly researched account of the ways people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.
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Breaking the Chains
- African American Slave Resistance
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-16
- Language: English
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Finding a Way Home
- Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage Equality
- Written by: Larry Dane Brimner
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Mildred Jeter Loving and Richard Perry Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia, but the state refused to let them. The reason: Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home—until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country’s landmark legal battles, Loving v. Virginia, the Lovings secured their future when the Supreme Court struck down all state laws prohibiting mixed marriage.
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Finding a Way Home
- Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage Equality
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-07
- Language: English
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Victory. Stand!
- Raising My Fist for Justice
- Written by: Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships.
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Victory. Stand!
- Raising My Fist for Justice
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-23
- Language: English
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A Long Time Coming
- A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
- Written by: Ray Anthony Shepard
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Ona Judge wanted more than the best job an enslaved person could have, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman challenged why some people are masters and others enslaved, Ida B. Wells exposed post-slavery brutality, Martin Luther King Jr. was the key voice to overturn Jim Crow, and Barack Obama changed modern-day racial attitudes. For author Ray Anthony Shepard A Long Time Coming is highly personal, a chronicle of the times of his grandparents, parents, and himself.
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A Long Time Coming
- A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-05
- Language: English
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