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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project: Born on the Wat...

by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Rent: $3.99

The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse, adapted for audio, chronicles the...

Unabridged: 23 min
Narrator: Nikole Hannah-Jone...
Published: 11/16/2021
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This Is Your Time, Ruby Bridges

This Is Your Time

by Ruby Bridges

Rent: $5.79

Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, ...

Unabridged: 13 min
Narrator: Ruby Bridges
Published: 11/10/2020
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Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Yona Zeldis McDonough

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Rent: $5.18

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's pr...

Unabridged: 55 min
Who Was...?
Narrator: Kevin Pariseau
Published: 09/03/2019
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, Carole Boston Weatherford

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Li...

by Carole Boston Weatherfo...

Rent: $5.99

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Pu...

Unabridged: 46 min
Narrator: Ron Butler
Published: 12/12/2017
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I am Muhammad Ali, Brad Meltzer

I am Muhammad Ali

by Brad Meltzer

Rent: $3.99

The American boxing champ and vocal civil rights activist Muhammad Ali is the 27th hero i...

Unabridged: 20 min
Ordinary People Change the World
Narrator: Damian Thompson
Published: 02/08/2022
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Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom, Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom

by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Rent: $3.99

Some call it Freedom Day; some call it Emancipation Day; some call it Juneteenth. Learn m...

Unabridged: 11 min
Narrator: Sharon Dennis Wyet...
Published: 05/10/2022
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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?, Sherri L. Smith

What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

by Sherri L. Smith

Rent: $5.18

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
What Was?
Narrator: Tashi Thomas
Published: 12/28/2021
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Sit-In  How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down, Andrea Davis Pinkney

Sit-In

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Rent: $4.99

The recipient of a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, Andrea Davis Pinkney is th...

Unabridged: 22 min
Narrator: Myra Lucretia Tayl...
Published: 04/05/2013
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Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?, Sherri L. Smith

Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?

by Sherri L. Smith

Rent: $5.18

It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American milita...

Unabridged: 1 hr 2 min
Who Was...?
Narrator: Larry Herron
Published: 08/07/2018
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From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, Julius Lester

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

by Julius Lester

Rent: $5.79

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration o...

Unabridged: 23 min
Narrator: Cary Hite
Published: 11/20/2018
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?, Sherri L. Smith

What Is the Civil Rights Movement...

by Sherri L. Smith

Rent: $5.18

Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.Even ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min
What Was?
Narrator: David Sadzin
Published: 12/29/2020
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Mae Makes a Way The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Mae Makes a Way

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Per...

Rent: $3.99

Tip your hat to fashion designer and civil rights icon Mae Reeves in this picture book bi...

Unabridged: 22 min
Narrator: Olugbemisola Rhuda...
Published: 05/24/2022
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement, Raul Colon

Child of the Civil Rights Movemen...

by Raul Colon

Rent: $4.99

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Sh...

Unabridged: 25 min
Narrator: Paula Young Shelto...
Published: 07/27/2021
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The People Remember, Ibi Zoboi

The People Remember

by Ibi Zoboi

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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut book&mdas...

Unabridged: 24 min
Narrator: Ibi Zoboi
Published: 09/28/2021
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Flying Free How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight, Karyn Parsons

Flying Free

by Karyn Parsons

Rent: $3.48

Based on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the stor...

Unabridged: 16 min
Narrator: Karyn Parsons
Published: 12/07/2021
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Ride to Remember, A, Sharon Langley

Ride to Remember, A

by Sharon Langley

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When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, an...

Unabridged: 24 min
Narrator: Sharon Langley
Published: 01/13/2020
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Lifting as We Climb Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box, Evette Dionne

Lifting as We Climb

by Evette Dionne

Rent: $7.49

For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-...

Unabridged: 4 hr 51 min
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Published: 04/21/2020
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The ABCs of Black History, Rio Cortez

The ABCs of Black History

by Rio Cortez

Rent: $3.49

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on ...

Unabridged: 55 min
Narrator: Bahni Turpin
Published: 02/15/2022
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Who Is Stacey Abrams?, Shelia P. Moses

Who Is Stacey Abrams?

by Shelia P. Moses

Rent: $5.79

Discover how a young girl who loved to read and write became a voting rights activist, a ...

Unabridged: 31 min
Who HQ Now
Narrator: Kamali Minter
Published: 09/13/2022
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Michael Martin

Harriet Tubman and the Undergroun...

by Michael Martin

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Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Written in graphic-novel ...

Unabridged: 10 min
Narrator: Various Narrators
Published: 03/01/2013
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In Daddy's Arms I am Tall, Javaka Steptoe

In Daddy's Arms I am Tall

by Javaka Steptoe

Rent: $8.14

"...This poetry collection expresses the playfulness, wonder, honor, pride, and tendernes...

Unabridged: 16 min
Narrator: Javaka Steptoe
Published: 02/01/2016
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I am John Lewis, Brad Meltzer

I am John Lewis

by Brad Meltzer

Rent: $3.99

The late Civil Rights activist and Congressman John Lewis is the 29th hero in the New Yor...

Unabridged: 22 min
Ordinary People Change the World
Narrator: Ron Butler
Published: 01/17/2023
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?, Caleb Gayle

What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre ...

by Caleb Gayle

Rent: $5.79

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community i...

Unabridged: 54 min
What Was?
Narrator: Miebaka Yohannes
Published: 04/25/2023
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Young, Gifted and Black Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present, Jamia Wilson

Young, Gifted and Black

by Jamia Wilson

Rent: $7.03

“...to be revisited again and again…The candy-colored pages and straightforw...

Unabridged: 1 hr 32 min
See Yourself in Their Stories
Narrator: Olivia Forrest
Published: 01/02/2024