BIPOC Authors

Augusta Savage

By: Marilyn Nelson

Narrated by: Marilyn Nelson & Grace Angela Henry

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful biography in poems​ about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du... Read more

The African American Soldier

By: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Military history's hidden figures are given their due in this revealing and moving exploration of the pivotal role of African Americans who risked their lives for their country—even as they fought courageously to become full citizens. A retired Lieutenant Colonel, Michael Lee Lanning covers Black soldiers' involvement in conflicts from the... Read more

Anchored Hearts

By: Priscilla Oliveras

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning photographer Alejandro Miranda hasn't been home to Key West in years—not since he left to explore broader horizons with his papi's warning "never to come back" echoing in his ears. He wouldn't be heading there now if it wasn't for an injury requiring months of recuperation. The drama of a prodigal son returning to his familia and... Read more

Light Years from Home

By: Mike Chen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood

A Best Of pick and Most Anticipated Sci Fi and Fantasy novel, as selected by Goodreads • Buzzfeed • BookRiot • The Portalist • IO9 • BookBub • SheReads • BiblioLifestyle • Den of Geek • GeekDad

“A rich backstory… a highly satisfying ending… All the stars for Chen's warmhearted... Read more

Never Tell

By: Stacey Abrams

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Stacey Abrams

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by Stacey Abrams.

From popular former gubernatorial candidate, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams comes an audiobook reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery.

Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live... Read more

Hosea Williams

By: Rolundus R. Rice

Narrated by: Arnell Powell

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."

In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words... Read more

The Daily Check-In

By: Michelle Williams

Narrated by: Michelle Williams

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.In The Daily Check-In, singer and actress Michelle Williams helps you process the emotions that cause you to feel overwhelmed and gives you powerful strategies for discovering freedom and wholeness.In her book Checking In, Michelle Williams shared the painful seasons of struggle that left her feeling like she couldn't go on.... Read more

Manifesto

By: Bernardine Evaristo

Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British... Read more

How We Can Win

By: Kimberly Jones

Narrated by: Kimberly Jones

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”

“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if... Read more

Red Lip Theology

By: Candice Marie Benbow

Narrated by: Candice Marie Benbow & Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies

“Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into... Read more

Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Narrated by: Ronke Adékoluejo

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers

“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

Meet Yinka: a... Read more

Misogynoir Transformed

By: Moya Bailey

Narrated by: Moya Bailey

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural... Read more

A Good Name

By: Yejide Kilanko

Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to rewrite his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn't one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and... Read more

Culturally Responsive School Leadership

By: Muhammad Khalifa

Narrated by: David Sadzin & Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages... Read more

Admissions

By: Kendra James

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.

Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep... Read more

Freedom!

By: Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Mar...

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Booklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER–International Literacy Association (ILA)–Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR–2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights
Top 10–In the Margins Book Award

There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place,... Read more

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

By: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevie...

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.“One of the greatest... Read more

Hunger

By: Lan Samantha Chang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation... Read more

All Day Is A Long Time

By: David Sanchez

Narrated by: Robb Moreira

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022"" One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January"" One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases"" One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January"" One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books” ""David Sanchez's first novel—brilliant, lyrical,... Read more

Black, Brown, Bruised

By: Ebony Omotola McGee

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM.



Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to... Read more

Letters to the Sons of Society

By: Shaka Senghor

Narrated by: Shaka Senghor

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons—one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.
 
“A visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road... Read more

A More Perfect Union

By: Tammye Huf

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Chanté McCormick & Patryce Williams

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined…

Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor... Read more

Police Brutality and White Supremacy

By: Etan Thomas

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring original interviews with: Steph Curry, Chuck D, Yamiche Alcindor, Isiah Thomas, Jemele Hill, Craig Hodges, Stan Van Gundy, Mark Cuban, Jake Tapper, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Sue Bird, Kyle Korver, Rick Strom, Cenk Uygur, Tim Wise, Chris Broussard, Breanna Stewart, Rex Chapman, Stephen Jackson, Kori McCoy, Lora Dene King, Chikesia Clemons,... Read more

Courage

By: Freshta Tori Jan

Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta’s school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends were murdered and shot. Her journey through... Read more