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Black Moses

A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

by Caleb Gayle ...

**One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionOne of The Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA New York Times Editors' Choice PickNamed a Best Book of the Year for The Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library!“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington... ... Read more

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**One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionOne of The Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA New York Times Editors' Choice PickNamed a Best Book of the Year for The Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library!“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington...
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We Refuse to Forget

A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

by Caleb Gayle ...

“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson“We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined…We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making.” —Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American MemoirA ... Read more

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“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson“We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined…We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making.” —Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American MemoirA
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

by Caleb Gayle, Who HQ ...

Illustrated by Tim Foley ...

Series series What Was?
Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a flourishing neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses, ... Read more

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Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a flourishing neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses,
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Black Moses

A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

by Caleb Gayle ...

Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

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7 hours 49 min

**One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionOne of The Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA New York Times Editors' Choice PickNamed a Best Book of the Year for The Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library!“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington... ... Read more

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**One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionOne of The Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA New York Times Editors' Choice PickNamed a Best Book of the Year for The Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library!“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington...
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We Refuse to Forget

A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

by Caleb Gayle ...

Narrated by Caleb Gayle ...

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6 hours 57 min

“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson“We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined…We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making.” —Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American MemoirA ... Read more

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“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson“We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined…We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making.” —Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American MemoirA
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

by Caleb Gayle, Who HQ ...

Narrated by Miebaka Yohannes ...

Series series What Was?
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54 min

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a flourishing neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses, ... Read more

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Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a flourishing neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses,
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Next of Kin

A Memoir

by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us ... Read more

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In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us
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Minor Black Figures

A Novel

by Brandon Taylor ...

Narrated by Andre Santana ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity**New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.After attending a dubious show ... Read more

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity**New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.After attending a dubious show
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The Divorce Colony

How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

by April White ...

Narrated by April White, Lisa Flanagan ...

Unabridged

8 hours 17 min

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms.For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota—one sure to garner disapproval ... Read more

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From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms.For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota—one sure to garner disapproval
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The Last Slave Ship

The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

by Ben Raines ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring ... Read more

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The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring
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The Three Mothers

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

by Anna Malaika Tubbs ...

Narrated by Anna Malaika Tubbs ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

**This program is read by the author.Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three ... Read more

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**This program is read by the author.Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three
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Darkology

Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

by Rhae Lynn Barnes ...

Narrated by Susan Hanfield, Patryce Williams ...

Unabridged

20 hours 8 min

A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unravels this complex, subterranean ... Read more

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A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unravels this complex, subterranean
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