The Road South

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

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Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

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A Free State

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Manchild in The Promised Land

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The Dying Crapshooter's Blues

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Pale Blue

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Bombingham

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The Colonel's Dream

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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

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Sweetsmoke

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The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power

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Stand the Storm: A Novel

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Lavell Crawford: New Look Same Funny

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Legacy of a Lawman

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Walk Through Darkness

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Civil Rights Activist John Hope Franklin

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Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement

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Dancing in the Dark

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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

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Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom

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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home

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Black Samurai

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The Canebrake Men

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The Gay Place: Being Three Related Novels

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Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera

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I Say A Prayer for Me: One Woman's Life of Faith and Triumph

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Lavell Crawford: The Comedy Vaccine

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An Illustrated Timeline of U.S. Presidents

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The Border Men

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Hattiesburg: An American City In Black And White

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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Let's Tidy Up: The Book

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

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The Woman in Me

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Counting the Cost

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals Presents: Good Girl: Notes on Dog Rescue

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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Sociopath: A Memoir

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Making It So: A Memoir

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living

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Yes Please

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting

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Good Girls Don't

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Bad Mormon

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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Dad at Peace

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel

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See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up!

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Enough

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A Stolen Life: A Memoir

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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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Finding Me: A Memoir

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language

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The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West: Before she hit the big-screen, the sultry actress starred in a 1927 tabloid trial.

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OBP’s Best Books of 2023 with Tananarive Due, Linda Villarosa, and Baynard Woods: On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya looks back on some of our favorite conversations with authors this past year. First we hear Farai’s conversation with author Linda Villarosa about her latest book “Under the Skin” and the dangers of medical racism. Then guest host Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Baynard Woods, about his book “Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness.” We round out the show hearing Farai’s conversation with award-winning author Tananarive Due about her latest spooky book, “The Reformatory” and the true family story that inspired it.

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ReLIT: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson: We return Thursday, May 18th. Until then, please enjoy listening to the best shows from our archives. Here's one we love - it's like a new, sleeker James Bond. Who do you love? Who deserves your loyalty? And are the two one and the same? One young, b...

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‘1619,’ Episode 3: The Birth of American Music

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UI #87 - The Rescue of Charles Nalle: When escaped slave Charles Nalle was arrested in Troy, NY on April 27, 1860, no one could have anticipated what happened next. With the help of Harriet Tubman, Nalle is the only person in US history to have been rescued from slavery four times.

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Episode 403: Seyward Darby

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#113 Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire: What I learned from reading Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines.

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282 Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire. Although the revolt took place on the island of Jamaica, the reverberations of this revolt stretched across the Atlantic Ocean and into...

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Koritha Mitchell, “Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930” (University of Illinois Press, 2012): Koritha Mitchell‘s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2012) is, as described on the publisher’s webpage, “the first full-length critical study of lynching plays ...

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Story: ‘Under the Ackee Tree,’ by Jonathan Escoffery

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Dana Milbank!: Washington Post opinion columnist and author of 'The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party' Dana Milbank joins Zerlina on the show to discuss his book and the GOP's severe decline.

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Michelle Obama: On the very first episode of Your Mama’s Kitchen, Michelle Obama talks about her childhood in a working class family on the South Side of Chicago, and the Red Rice recipe she craves today for a taste of home.

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How To Save Your Soul In America - with R. Eric Thomas

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Two books trace enslaved people's journey to freedom in the 19th century

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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations: American taxpayers bailed out Citigroup, owners of Citibank, to the tune of $476.2 billion. This was the highest bailout by far for any bank during the 2008 Wall Street Crash, caused by Wall Street. Given the immense federal aid that saved Citibank,...

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THE KING OF CRENSHAW Episode 2: Where You From?: A look at the world that raised, bruised, and ultimately made Nipsey Hussle the man he became.

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Dr. Carl Hart: Dr. Carl Hart is an expert in neuropsychopharmacology and professor of psychology at Columbia University. In this episode, we talk about Carl’s cutting-edge drug addiction research and the war on drugs. This episode is sponsored by Stereo. Go to to...

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Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool - Stanley Nelson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Vince Wilburn Jr., Erin Davis, and Carl Lumbly Q&A: Director Stanley Nelson leads a conversation about his new film MILES DAVIS: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL with legendary jazz musicians Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis' nephew and bandmate Vince Wilburn Jr., Miles Davis' son Erin Davis, and voice ...

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THE KING OF CRENSHAW Episode 3: Songs in the Key of Life: The highs, lows, joys, and pains of Nipsey’s decade-plus-long voyage to his debut album ‘Victory Lap.’ And how that marathon ran parallel with the NBA players who were in awe of his every move.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’

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Ep. 179 Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021): An interview with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

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Donovan X. Ramsey and When Crack Was King’

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Morgan Parker : Magical Negro: “Morgan Parker’s latest collection, Magical Negro, is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness. . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read—both as an account of a private life and as ...

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I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin: A filmmaker pulls together a writer's unfinished work to reveal truths about racial relations in America.    The writer: James Baldwin  The book: I Am Not Your Negro   LET'S GET LIT!   - View the video podcast here: https://youtu.be/OXCf8CaUJ2Q  Find...

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Black Agenda Radio - 06.01.20:  Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The civil rights movement was not totally non-violent, certainly not in bloody...

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Betty & Miles Davis

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Ep. 304 Erasure by Percival Everett -- The Stacks Book Club (Zach Stafford)

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How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’: “If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill-gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap-charge in his blood like he’d plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around,” writes Colson Whitehead in his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle.” “Dizzying and powerful as it was. Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw — what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people’s maps of you.” Whitehead is the author of “The Underground Railroad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and “The Nickel Boys,” which also won a Pulitzer, the first time two consecutive books by an author won. But he actually started “Harlem Shuffle” in between those two books. And now that he’s finished it, he can’t quite put it down. He’s working on a sequel, he told me. The first time he’s tried one. “Harlem Shuffle” is both a joyous and a troubled book. It

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Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Carolyn Kizer, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1958 and 1973 in Seattle, WA, and at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.