Black Authors

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

Nachbarn - Storys (Ungekürzt)

By: Diane Oliver

Narrated by: Maya Alban-Zapata

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Buch, auf das die Welt 60 Jahre warten musste: große Literatur, in der Aktivismus und Poesie in explosiver Weise aufeinandertreffen "Nachbarn" ist eines jener seltenen Werke in der Literatur, die ihre Zeit einfangen und ihr doch weit voraus sind. Diane Oliver erkundet darin die sich wandelnden sozialen Umstände: Beäugt von den Nachbarn,... Read more

stay up

By: Khodi Dill

Narrated by: Khodi Dill

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy... Read more

Manifiesto criminal (Ray Carney 2)

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Víctor Sabi

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

«Whitehead se está convirtiendo rápidamente en el Dickens de la vida de losafroamericanos estadounidenses».
Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times El doble ganador del Pulitzer continúa entonando su himno a Harlem, en todo su esplendor y miseria, y recreando el paisaje criminal del agitado Nueva York de la década de 1970. Comienza la década de los... Read more

I've Been to the Mountaintop

By: Clayborne Carson & Kris Shepard

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the... Read more

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

By: author

Narrated by: Desmond Tutu, Alan Rickman, Whoopi Goldberg, Ma...

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an extraordinary audiobook featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo,... Read more

The Shadowed Sun

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final book of NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology, a priestess and an exiled prince must join together to free the city of dreams from imperial rule.

Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now... Read more

The Killing Moon

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Assassin priests, mad kings, and the goddess of death collide in the first book of the Dreamblood Duology by NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin.

The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon.

In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled... Read more

The Measure of a Man

By: Sidney Poitier

Narrated by: Sidney Poitier

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and... Read more

Help Me to Find My People

By: Heather Andrea Williams

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide listeners back to devastating moments of family separation... Read more

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Louis Gossett

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate... Read more

Intellectuals and Race

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense—one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their... Read more

The Secret Game

By: Scott Ellsworth

Narrated by: Scott Ellsworth

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened -- and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.

In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James... Read more

H.N.I.C.

By: Albert “Prodigy” Johnson

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Kim Johnson

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it's the price of his freedom. He knows Black can't be trusted. He knows his "brother" would rather see him dead than let him walk away. Yet he still agrees to do the job... Read more

Delicious Foods

By: James Hannaham

Narrated by: James Hannaham

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.

Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband.... Read more

The Light of the World

By: Elizabeth Alexander

Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.

In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid price, Alexander tells a love... Read more

Pleasantville

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are... Read more

American Ace

By: Marilyn Nelson

Narrated by: Marilyn Nelson

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity
 
Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised... Read more

Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Narrated by: Joe Holt

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money... Read more

Riot

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

During a long, hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent... Read more

Emily's Fortune

By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus. What in... Read more

The Other Half of My Heart

By: Sundee T. Frazier

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of biracial twin sisters—one black, one white—and the summer that tests their strong bond, from the author of Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It.
 
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like... Read more

Invisible Man

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with... Read more

Miracle's Boys

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Dulé Hill

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is like it used to be. If it were, Mama would still be alive. Papa wouldn’t have died. And Charlie would still be the same old loving big brother to 13-year-old Lafayette, not a hostile stranger, just back from doing time at a correctional facility. Oldest brother, Ty’ree, would have gone to college, instead of having to work full-time... Read more