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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,609 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • A Story of America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Renowned, best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America....

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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • By: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

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    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • Understanding Our Racial Divide
    • By: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best-seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience....

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    • The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
    • By: Brandy Colbert
    • Narrated by: Brandy Colbert, Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • Award-winning author Brandy Colbert presents a searing new work of nonfiction about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre....

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    • The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
    • By: Chris Crowe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Addams Award-winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the civil rights movement....

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    • The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
    • By: Jesse Wegman
    • Narrated by: Jesse Wegman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Twice in the last five elections, the Electoral College has overridden the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire system into question - and creating a false picture of a country divided into bright red and blue blocks when in fact we are purple from coast to coast....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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    • Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.

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    • Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
    • By: Tim Madigan, Hilary Beard - adaptation
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma....

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    • The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
    • By: Claire Hartfield
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man threw stones at the boys, striking and killing one....

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    • Life in Native America
    • By: David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was 100 years ago....

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    • African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
    • By: Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Arnell Powell, Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book. For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses....

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