Black Authors

The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons

Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.

“A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I’ve never rooted harder for a jock in my life.” – New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Sequence to Success

By: Samuel R. Chand

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Every one of us gets anywhere in life due to three things: someone observes us, forms an opinion about us, and decides to give us an opportunity…or not. Likewise, we do the same thing with others. People have played this essential role in our lives, and we play it in the lives of those around us—and no matter how skilled we’ve become, we can... Read more

Beautifully Distinct

By: Trillia Newbell, Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, Lil...

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer, Sarah Zimmerman, Erin Benne...

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspires women to engage with life and culture in a God-honoring way.

How should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to either disengage completely, or find ourselves... Read more

The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

Narrated by: Jericho Brown

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry



Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award



Jericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What... Read more

When Our Worlds Collided

By: Danielle Jawando

Narrated by: Kenton Thomas & Danielle Henry

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE AND THE JHALAK CHILDREN'S AND YA PRIZE 2023.

A powerful coming-of-age story about chance encounters, injustice and how the choices that we make can completely change our future. The second YA novel from multi-award-winning Danielle Jawando, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Gayle Foreman, Jennifer Niven and Nikesh... Read more

August Snow

By: Stephen Mack Jones

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

August Snow, an ex-police detective who was fired from the Detroit PD, brought down the entire corrupt department and the mayor with a wrongful dismissal lawsuit. The son of an AfricanAmerican cop and a Mexican-American painter, August Snow is
most at home in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, where he grew up—the neighborhood he’s now returned... Read more

Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race

By: Megan Madison & Jessica Ralli

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series, now adapted for audio, offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood... Read more

The Dead Are Arising

By: Les Payne & Tamara Payne

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm
X—all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders... Read more

My Voice Is a Trumpet

By: Jimmie Allen

Narrated by: Mary Beth Adair

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*"The rhythm and flow of words perfectly match the art while advising readers to choose love and use their voices in a powerful song." --School Library Journal (starred review)
 
From rising country star Jimmie Allen comes a lyrical celebration of the many types of voices that can effect change.

From voices tall as a tree, to voices small as a bee,... Read more

Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0

By: Brenda Salter McNeil

Narrated by: Brenda Salter McNeil

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil has created a roadmap to show us... Read more

This Book Is Anti-Racist

By: Tiffany Jewell

Narrated by: Tiffany Jewell

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What is racism?
What is anti-racism? 
How can you stand up and take action?

In this engaging audio version of the New York Times best-selling This Book is Anti-Racist, young people will learn how to take action against racism and injustice.  The audiobook explores identity, history, and the language surrounding racism as each chapter naturally... Read more

Becoming Vanessa

By: Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Narrated by: Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Get ready to go back to school with this inclusive, empathetic story that will help kids new to the classroom transform from timid caterpillars into beautiful butterflies who love exactly who they are!

On Vanessa's first day of school, her parents tell her it will be easy to make friends. Vanessa isn't so sure. She wears her fanciest... Read more

Off the Record

By: Camryn Garrett

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The behind-the-scenes access of Almost Famous meets the searing revelations of metoo in this story of a teen journalist who uncovers the scandal of the decade.

Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage fire. So when she wins a contest to... Read more

Shirley Chisholm Dared

By: Alicia D. Williams

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a Newbery Honor-winning author and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator.

Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her... Read more

White Fright

By: Jane Dailey

Narrated by: Kylah Frye

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.
In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of... Read more

Allies and Advocates

By: Amber Cabral

Narrated by: Amber Cabral

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to create an inclusive environment with this actionable and insightful resource



Allies and Advocates: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture delivers a powerful and useful message about inclusion and diversity in everyday life. Author Amber Cabral, a celebrated inclusion strategist, speaker, and writer, shows listeners how to move... Read more

Mrs. Wiggins

By: Mary Monroe

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of her captivating, scandalous Mama Ruby series, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe crafts a story set in the Deep South during the Depression, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life—no matter what it costs to keep it …

The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew... Read more

The Taking of Jake Livingston

By: Ryan Douglass

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee.

Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one... Read more

Shallow Waters

By: Anita Kopacz

Narrated by: Michelle Kopacz

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

In this “captivating” (Harper’s Bazaar) and lyrical debut novel—perfect for fans of The Water Dancer and the Legacy of Orïsha series—the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America.

Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha—a deity in... Read more

Changes

By: Sheldon Pearce

Narrated by: Ashton Grooms, Aden Hakimi, Cary Hite, JD Jacks...

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.

In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur’s single “Changes” became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Floyd. The song became so popular, in fact,... Read more

Battle Cry

By: Jason Wilson

Narrated by: Jason Wilson

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Become a better husband, father, and leader when you learn to express your emotions in a healthy way.In a culture that tells men to suppress instead of express, join bestselling author, speaker, and leader Jason Wilson (featured in the award-winning ESPN documentary The Cave of Adullam) as he calls you to unlearn society's... Read more

In My Grandmother’s House

By: Yolanda Pierce

Narrated by: Yolanda Pierce

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother?



The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the... Read more

Marley and the Family Band

By: Cedella Marley

Narrated by: Cedella Marley

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A picture book that celebrates music, love, and family from author Cedella Marley. A poetic story about a young girl who moves to a new country and learns to make friends—inspired by a childhood growing up with the musician Bob Marley as a father.

When Marley and her family move from Jamaica to Delaware, she knows life is about to change in big... Read more

Bad Witch Burning

By: Jessica Lewis

Narrated by: Kamali Minter

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.

Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She’s been able to support her unemployed mother—and Mom’s... Read more