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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Credits: Audio Cassette
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.
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Credits: Audio Cassette | 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....
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MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Tapes
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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.
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Born to Kvetch
by Michael Wex
Credits: Audio CD
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...
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Credits: Audio CD
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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Democracy Matters
by Cornel West
Credits: Audio CD
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.
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Mirror to America
by John Hope Franklin
Credits: Audio CD
Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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The Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book
by Jessica McElrath
Credits: Audio CD
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational figures in American history. From his march on Washington to his time in a Birmingham jail, King's life and work continue to have a profound effect on our nation.
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New York Burning
by Jill Lepore
Credits: Audio CD
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!"
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo.
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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
by Vinay Rai
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.
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The Color of Love
by Gene Cheek
Credits: Digital Download
Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism. At its core, this is a frank account of a love affair between a white woman and a black man that took mother from son and split a family forever.
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Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of the Kabul Beauty School.
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The Life of an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
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Bluish
by Virginia Hamilton
Credits: Audio CD
Friendship isn’t always easy.
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Walking the Choctaw Road
by Tim Tingle
Credits: Audio CD
Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer a deeply personal collection of stories woven from the supernatural, mythical, historical and oral accounts of Choctaw people living today.
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The Slave Ship
by Marcus Rediker
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible.
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The Race Beat
by Gene Roberts
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation in the South and the brutality used to enforce it.
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Credits: Audio Cassette
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” wrote W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk.
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A Slave No More
by David Blight
Credits: Audio CD
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves.
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I'm Just a DJ But...It Makes Sense to Me
by Tom Joyner
Credits: Audio CD
Hall of Fame disc jockey Tom Joyner uses his signature brand of humor to discuss everything from business to careers to relationships as he shares the insights and lessons he's learned along the way.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority.
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Inside the Red Mansion
by Oliver August
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges.
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Ask a Mexican
by Gustavo Arellano
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by rising star Gustavo Arellano, who uses the best questions from readers of his Ask a Mexican! column in California's OC Weekly to explore the many clichés applied to Mexican Americans.
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