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1.		Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass Available on: Digital Download First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography.
2.		MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Tapes by Martin Luther King, Jr. Available on: Audio CD ($12.76) | Digital Download ($9.95) This historical compilation of Martin Luther King, Jr. features live recordings of "The Great March To Freedom," "The Great March To Washington" and the immortal "Free At Last" speech.
3.		Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson Abridged Edition Available on: Audio CD ($24.75) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel, a rough man with a criminal record and ties to the Ku Klux Klan....
4.		A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Available on: Audio Cassette ($15.16) When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama.
5.		Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Addresses Available on: Digital Download Duke University celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with programming that reflects on Dr. King’s legacy and how it continues today.
6.		Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($35.96) | Digital Download Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....
7.		Born to Kvetch by Michael Wex Available on: Audio CD ($27.96) | Digital Download As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive persecution...
8.		American RadioWorks presents Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio The visceral impact of history's great speechmakers is at the heart of Say It Plain....
9.		Case of the Negro & Awakening of the Negro by Booker T. Washington Available on: Digital Download Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community.
10.		Ideas Lecture: Jared Diamond by Dr. Jared Diamond Available on: Online Audio An audience of 850 attended the Ideas Lecture on 2 June 2005 to listen to the remarkable scientist, thinker and historian Jared Diamond present the Ideas Lecture.
11.		Geography of World Cultures by Martin W. Lewis Available on: Digital Download Despite the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization, people continue to be joined together and divided asunder by the languages they speak, the religions they follow, and the ethnic identities to which they belong.
12.		Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education.
13.		Museum of the African Diaspora Podcast Available on: Podcast An international museum, based in San Francisco, MoAD is committed to showcasing the "best of the best" from the African Diaspora.
14.		World Literature by Norbert Elliot Available on: Digital Download Literature 330 offers students an opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary global interactions by exploring a diverse array of culturally expressive artifacts---novels, short stories, and poems--grouped geographically by region.
15.		The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - PBS Podcast by Thirteen - WNET Available on: Podcast Listen to compelling first-hand accounts by people who experienced, endured, and survived Jim Crow.
16.		The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois Available on: Digital Download The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
17.		Democracy Matters by Cornel West Available on: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach.
18.		Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download Myers, the very first recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, recounts growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and '50s…
19.		Black Boy by Richard Wright Available on: Audio CD Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
20.		World Literature II by Norbert Elliot Available on: Digital Download Literature 331 offers students an opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary global interactions by exploring a diverse array of culturally expressive artifacts---novels, short stories, and poems--grouped geographically by region.
21.		New York Burning by Jill Lepore Available on: Audio CD ($29.95) | Digital Download Over a few weeks in 1741, thirteen fires blazed across New York City. With each new fire, panicked whites cried from street corners, "The Negroes are rising!"
22.		Why Care? by Elie Wiesel Available on: Online Audio On last Sunday's show, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel discussed the concept of caring and commented on violence around the world.
23.		Toni Morrison: Lannan Readings & Conversations by Toni Morrison Available on: Online Audio Toni Morrison has published seven novels.
24.		In Depth: Angela Davis by Angela Davis Available on: Online Video Angela Y. Davis, author, activist, and professor of the history of consciousness at UC- Santa Cruz, joined us for a three-hour discussion about her life and work.
25.		Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson Unabridged Edition Available on: Digital Download The battle for civil rights was not won in the '60s, certainly not in many parts of the country....