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MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Tapes
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Price: 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.
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Price: 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.
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Price: Audio CD ($39.96) | 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....
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Born to Kvetch
by Michael Wex
Price: Audio CD ($34.95) | 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...
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Democracy Matters
by Cornel West
Price: 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.
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Mirror to America
by John Hope Franklin
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Digital Download
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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New York Burning
by Jill Lepore
Price: 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!"
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Price: Audio CD ($39.95)
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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The Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book
by Jessica McElrath
Price: Audio CD ($27.99)
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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Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($26.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
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 Color of Love
by Gene Cheek
Price: Digital Download ($29.98)
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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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith
Price: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
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
Price: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
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 Life of an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Price: Audio CD ($22.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
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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Inhuman Bondage
by David Brion Davis
Price: Audio CD ($99.00) | Audio Cassette ($77.36) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Brion Davis, leading authority on slavery in the Western World, sums up a lifetime of insight, linking together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism.
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A Slave No More
by David Blight
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download
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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Ask a Mexican
by Gustavo Arellano
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
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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I'm Just a DJ But...It Makes Sense to Me
by Tom Joyner
Price: Audio CD ($22.48) | Digital Download
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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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Digital Download
Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Price: Audio Cassette ($44.95) | 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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West of Kabul, East of New York
by Tamim Ansary
Price: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to 20 friends, discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American.
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The Race Beat
by Gene Roberts
Price: Audio CD ($39.16) | Audio Cassette ($105.80) | MP3 CD ($23.96)
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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Between Two Worlds: From Tyranny to Freedom, My Escape from the Inner Circle of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move.
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Buried in the Bitter Waters
by Elliot Jaspin
Price: Audio CD ($29.56) | Digital Download
Based on painstaking research, this work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race.
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Inside the Red Mansion
by Oliver August
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
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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