Non-Fiction Books About Black History

This Black History Month, learn about privilege, oppression, and Black history with these insightful listens.

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Keisha N. Blain

14 hr 2 min $22.50 or 1 credit

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Martha S. Jones

10 hr 42 min $27.99 or 1 credit

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

Michelle Alexander

16 hr 56 min $30.99 or 1 credit

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

9 hr 31 min $20.00 or 1 credit

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

6 hr 31 min $19.99 or 1 credit

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

6 hr 51 min $22.99 or 1 credit

Ida B. the Queen

Michelle Duster

3 hr 43 min $17.99 or 1 credit

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude

7 hr 44 min $17.50 or 1 credit

The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

18 hr 6 min $30.99 or 1 credit

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Kellie Carter Jackson

7 hr 26 min $20.99 or 1 credit

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

12 hr 44 min $25.99 or 1 credit

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

22 hr 0 min $17.99 or 1 credit

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

5 hr 48 min $18.99 or 1 credit

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