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  • Deep Delta Justice

    A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

    by Matthew Van Meter ...
    **The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist**The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the ... Read more

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    Deep Delta Justice

    A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

    by Matthew Van Meter ...
    Narrated by Brad Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    **Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/BiographyThe book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist**The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Down Along with That Devil's Bones

    A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy

    by Connor Towne O'Neill ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Cantor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    “We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyConnor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Trailblazer

    A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

    by Dorothy Butler Gilliam ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Last Negroes at Harvard

    The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

    by Kent Garrett, Jeanne Ellsworth ...
    Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    An Essence Black History Month PickThe untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen “Negro” boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one ... Read more

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    Requiem for the Massacre

    A Black History on the Conflict, Hope and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    by R.J. Young ...
    Narrated by R.J. Young ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American historyMore than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power ... Read more

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    Little and Often

    A Memoir

    by Trent Preszler ...
    Narrated by Matt Bomer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    “Little and Often is a beautiful memoir of grief, love, the shattered bond between a father and son, and the resurrection of a broken heart. Trent Preszler tells his story with the same level of art and craftsmanship that he brings to his boat making, and he reminds us of creativity’s power to transform and heal our lives. This is a powerful and deeply moving book. I won’t soon forget it.” ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Jimmy the King

    Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop

    by Gus Garcia-Roberts ...
    Narrated by Marc Vietor ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 5 min

    An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departmentsIn 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York. As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution, a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell. For his cooperation, Jimmy Burke was rewarded ... Read more

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    The Infernal Library

    On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy

    by Daniel Kalder ...
    Narrated by Chris Ciulla ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 26 min

    The Infernal Library is a harrowing audiobook tour of “dictator literature” in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse.Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literall... ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    White Space, Black Hood

    Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

    by Sheryll Cashin ...
    Narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist ... Read more

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    Belonging

    One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

    by Catherine Corless ...
    Narrated by Caitriona Hinds ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION.Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010. Uncovering no less than 796 missing burial records of children born there, the stark truth of their place of rest became clear: a disused sewage tank ... Read more

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    Easy Street (the Hard Way)

    A Memoir

    by Ron Perlman, Michael Largo ...
    Narrated by Ron Perlman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    The candid, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of Beauty and the Beast, the Hellboymovies, and Sons of AnarchyA classically trained actor who cut his teeth in the East Village's off-Broadway scene, Ron Perlman—a Golden Globe winner with starring roles in the Hellboymovies, Drive, Pacific Rim, and Sons of Anarchy—has traveled an offbeat path to showbiz success. His story involves ... Read more

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