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Black voices matter

Listen to Black authors educate and advocate for change. 
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  • Audiobook

    Born A Crime

    Stories from a South African Childhood

    by Trevor Noah ...
    Narrated by Trevor Noah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Light We Carry

    Overcoming In Uncertain Times

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir BecomingIn The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.She considers the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Year of Yes

    How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

    by Shonda Rhimes ...
    Narrated by Shonda Rhimes ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the YearThe instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on televisi. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Black Unicorn

    by Tiffany Haddish ...
    Narrated by Tiffany Haddish ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    **Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.**Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Natives

    Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Akala ...
    Narrated by Akala ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now' Benjamin Zephaniah'I recommend Natives to everyone' Candice Carty-WilliamsFrom the first time he ... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    by Walter Rodney ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Between the World and Me

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    Narrated by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Good Immigrant

    by Nikesh Shukla ...
    Narrated by Nikesh Shukla, Varaidzo, Chimene Suleyman, Vera Chok, Daniel York Loh, Himesh Patel, Nish Kumar, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Wei Ming Kam0, Darren Chetty1, Kieran Yates2, Coco Khan3, Inua Ellams4, Sabrina Mahfouz5, Riz Ahmed6, Sarah Sahim7, Salena Godden8, Miss L9, Bim Adewunmi0, Vinay Patel1, Musa Okwonga2 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors.How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Blackout

    How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

    by Candace Owens ...
    Narrated by Candace Owens ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt’s time for a black exit.Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Policing Black Lives

    State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

    by Robyn Maynard ...
    Narrated by Marcia Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.While highlighting the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...
    Narrated by January Lavoy ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend.I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Abundance Now

    Amplify Your Life & Achieve Prosperity Today

    by Lisa Nichols, Janet Switzer ...
    Narrated by Lisa Nichols, Mike Ray ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    New York Times bestselling author, Personal Transformation guru, and life coach for the Steve Harvey Show and Today, Lisa Nichols shares her journey from scarcity to abundance, outlining steps everyone can take to create abundance in career, relationships, self, and finances—while creating a legacy for others to follow.Twenty years ago, Lisa Nichols was a single mother dependent on public ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    Narrated by Christopher Dontrell Piper ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 8 min

    WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 —The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2016A CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2016A ROOT BEST BOOK OF 2016A BUZZFEED BEST ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD $31.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Clapback

    Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes

    by Elijah Lawal ...
    Narrated by Michael Obiora ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    A definitive guide to calling out racial stereotypes and understanding the meaning behind them___________Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down.___________In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not right.... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    To Shape a New World

    Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.

    by Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 25 min

    Martin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political thought remains underappreciated.In To Shape a New World ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Dreaming in a Nightmare

    Inequality and What We Can Do About It

    by Jeremiah Emmanuel ...
    Narrated by Jeremiah Emmanuel, Krystal Mamongo, Robbie Luboya ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A moving and powerful account of the problems faced by a new generation**, from crime to poverty to** an increasingly divided society**, from an extraordinarily accomplished young activist and entrepreneur.**My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I’m twenty years old. I’m an activist, an entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament. I ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

    by Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin ...
    Narrated by Guy Lockard ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this “cautionary tale that ends in triumph” (GQ).For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is “as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself” (Complex).The platinum-selling recording artist began writing his remarkable autobiography in a federal maximum ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Taking Up Space

    The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change

    by Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi ...
    Narrated by Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Taking Up Space written and read by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi.THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________‘Brilliant’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS‘Hugely important’ PAULA AKPAN‘Essential’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________</st... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Well-Read Black Girl

    Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

    by Glory Edim ...
    Narrated by Glory Edim ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    'Required reading.' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book.In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community, Well-Read Black Girl, brings together original ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Trailblazer

    A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

    by Dorothy Butler Gilliam ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD $38.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    White like Her

    My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing

    by Gail Lukasik ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend

    Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump

    by Ben Philippe ...
    Narrated by James Fouhey ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe’s candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    My Vanishing Country

    A Memoir

    by Bakari Sellers ...
    Narrated by Bakari Sellers ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten black working-class men and women.Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD