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    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • By: Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002 ratings
    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

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    • The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison....

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    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    • By: Kevin Young
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible....

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    • The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

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    • How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
    • By: Jeffrey Haas
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 793 ratings
    • Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton....

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    • The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Hampton Sides
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings
    • On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox....

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    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

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    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • By: Jill Leovy
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,893 ratings
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • The “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina - a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights....

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    • The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
    • By: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....

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    • The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
    • By: Stephen L. Carter
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • As fast-paced as fiction, Invisible tells the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandson’s remarkable audiobook, her story is once again visible....

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    • A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
    • By: Matthew Gavin Frank
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market....

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    • The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
    • By: Erin Kimmerle
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths shut the institution down in 2011.

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    • A Hit Man's Tale
    • By: Brick, Storm
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Elle Cleviden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Meet Marcel and Sabrina, a hitman and a bookkeeper for the Mob. The couple should have never met, let alone fallen in love. When they decide to go against the grain, all hell breaks loose. Somebody wants them dead; they just don't know who....

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    • The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
    • By: Charles Lane
    • Narrated by: Jim Bond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • America after the Civil War was a land of shattered promises and entrenched hatreds....

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    • The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
    • By: Doris Payne, Zelda Lockhart - contributor
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief - a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path....

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    • A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
    • By: Grace Elizabeth Hale, John Grisham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nicole Swanson, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America....

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