Audiobooks with keyword Huey P Newton

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This audiobook is a memoir by Dorothy Roberts, who recounts her experience growing up in a biracial family in 1960s Chicago. She explores her parents' interracial marriage and her father's lifelong research on such unions, ultimately leading to her own journey of self-discovery and reflection on race and identity.

Categories: Political
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This audiobook unveils the powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the deep history of U.S. intervention, focusing on the controversial life of Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos. It details the armed insurrection, U.S. suppression including bombing its own citizens, and the broader context of colonialism and the struggle for self-determination.

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This audiobook explores how the Vietnam War became a crucible for Black Americans, highlighting their fight for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home. It examines the racial and political divides that shaped the era and continue to resonate today, weaving together the experiences of soldiers, activists, and cultural figures.

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This audiobook tells the powerful, unabridged story of Lamonte McIntyre, a falsely imprisoned man, and serves as a sweeping indictment of corruption within Kansas City's justice system. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Rick Tulsky recounts how McIntyre's thirty-year fight for exoneration exposed deep-seated injustices involving police, prosecutors, and judges.

Categories: Political
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This audiobook tells the story of Thomas Smallwood, a Black abolitionist who used satire to ridicule slaveholders and coined the term "underground railroad." He organized mass escapes and his writings, published pseudonymously, offered a unique real-time account of these efforts.

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This audiobook argues that migrant and refugee crises are direct results of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change. It examines how borders worldwide are used to displace, criminalize, and exploit people, consolidating imperial, capitalist, and racist rule.

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This audiobook, "Bad Indians Book Club," challenges settler colonial narratives by exploring works from marginalized Indigenous writers. Through interlacing fiction and insightful analysis, it offers alternative perspectives on history, science, and gender, guided by the spirit of Deer Woman.

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This audiobook explores the enduring racial wealth gap in America, arguing that discriminatory laws rooted in white supremacy have systematically hindered Black wealth creation while subsidizing white families. It details how these historical forces, including violence and the collapse of Black institutions, alongside racist justifications, have maintained economic inequality and necessitate reparations.

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This unabridged novel follows Daphne and Connie, best friends whose bond in 1980s South London evolves into love amidst family secrets and the challenges of their British-Jamaican community. Spanning a decade and crossing continents, it explores race, class, and the enduring power of chosen family.

Categories: Historical Fiction
Keywords: caribbeanRace
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This audiobook features Langston Hughes's vibrant and incisive short stories, narrated by J.D. Jackson, that explore the complex interactions between Black and white Americans in the 1920s and '30s, blending blues and jazz influences into a unique storytelling style.

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Tiya Miles' audiobook critically examines how "ghost tours" at Southern historical sites exploit and distort enslaved Black history for commercial gain. The narration highlights how these tours sensationalize slavery, perpetuating harmful "Old South" narratives while erasing its brutal realities and obscuring the truth of the Civil War era.

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This National Book Award-winning audiobook traces the history of a cotton bag passed down through three generations of Black women, revealing the resilience and ingenuity of those often excluded from historical records. Tiya Miles uses this object as a lens to explore the experience of slavery and uncertain freedom in America.

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This "raw and lyrical" memoir-in-essays by Kaila Yu explores her journey as a former pinup model reckoning with Asian fetishization. It delves into how media, pop culture, and colonialism shaped destructive stereotypes of Asian women and her personal path to self-love and healing.

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This biography explores how James Baldwin's personal relationships profoundly shaped his life and work, drawing on new archival material and research. It delves into his connections with mentors, lovers, and collaborators, revealing how these influences fueled his impactful literary and artistic contributions.

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Shannon Malone Gonzalez's *The Secrets of Silence* explores how the policing of black women is intertwined with the silencing of their stories, revealing how societal control and everyday policing render their experiences invisible. The book argues that storytelling and listening, drawing on abolition feminism and black knowledge, are crucial for critiquing these forms of control and fostering solidarity.

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This audiobook is a genre-bending poetic exploration of human migration and Black intimacy, inspired by a hidden collection of family photographs. It offers a revelatory reframing of Black history, moving beyond typical narratives of race and migration to celebrate an exalted Black privacy and a vibrant, centering of Blackness.

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Huey P. Newton's autobiography, *Revolutionary Suicide*, chronicles the birth of a revolutionary, detailing his journey from an impoverished childhood to his central role in the Black Panther Party. This unrepentant and thought-provoking work serves as both a personal portrait and a manifesto for inspired radicalism.

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This unabridged audiobook, featuring a foreword by Angela Davis, offers a significant contribution to the history of Black liberation.

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This audiobook offers an intersectional analysis of how evangelical purity culture has shaped gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the U.S., revealing its connections to white supremacy and political power. Through participant stories, it details the oppressive effects of purity teachings, including sexual repression and shame, and how these debates often mask deeper histories of evangelical racism.

Keywords: Race
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This audiobook by Premal Dharia, featuring Arnell Powell, explores practical interventions to dismantle America's destructive carceral state. It offers a forum for discussions and disagreements on reforming, rethinking, or abolishing various aspects of the criminal justice system, drawing on diverse voices to hasten its end.

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This unabridged audiobook, based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, follows a Black woman who, in 1900s New York, defies racial barriers to become a celebrated librarian for J.P. Morgan, all while hiding her true identity. It's a tale of ambition, societal constraints, and the pursuit of freedom.

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This unabridged audiobook, read by Angela Davis, is a powerful autobiography detailing her formative years as a leading political activist in the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements. It chronicles her journey from a childhood in Birmingham to her involvement in significant political trials and organizations, offering a classic account of a life dedicated to struggle.

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"Black and White" by James Johnson traces the invention of race as a social construct, demonstrating how power, not biology, created this system. It offers a global history of how race was made up and why it continues to shape our world, serving as a blueprint to dismantle this lie.

Categories: HistoryPolitical
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Angela Davis recounts her formative years as a political activist across various movements, from her childhood to her involvement with significant organizations and her experiences with the justice system. This unabridged autobiography, read by Davis herself, offers a brilliant and humorous account of a life dedicated to struggle.