On July 1, 2005, the world lost one of the greatest R&B vocalists of all time, Luther Vandross. He left a legacy of some of the most enduring love songs of our age: “Here and Now”, “Superstar”, “If Only for One Night”, and “A House Is Not a Home”. Th...

Luther

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! From National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author Jason Reynolds comes a genre-defying new novel that serves as an homage to sharing the stories we all hold within ourselves.

Look Both Ways

Written as an engaging parable, Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success brings to life real-world challenges (and their solutions) and presents them in simple, yet powerful terms. The b...

Swim!

“You will devour these beautifully written - and very important - tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times best-selling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from 15 brilliant writers who explore how what we don...

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure - the remarkable Major Taylor, the Black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist ...

The World's Fastest Man

When legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, the renowned sports columnist was inspired by the question. He decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country with the 94-year-old O'...

The Soul of Baseball

The ﬁrst full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in Black baseball, a lightning-fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’s speed was extraordinar...

The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell

From fighting for his life to pursuing a career in the NFL, ACC Player of the Year and star Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner shares how his choice to not fear the unknown made all the difference in his extraordinary journey. During his f...

Fear Is a Choice

In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world. After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls.  The point guard, known to ...

I'll Show You

Golden State Warriors insider and best-selling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history - Kevin Durant.  The NBA has never seen a player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry...

The extraordinary memoir from baseball icon Jackie Robinson - originally published in 1948, just a year after he shattered baseball’s color barrier, and now released as an audiobook for the very first time.  “I’m not concerned with your liking or dis...

My Own Story

Ishmael Reed's inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to suppress the spread of black culture - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the 500 greatest books of the Western canon In 1920s America, a plague is spreading fast...

Mumbo Jumbo

One of the “Best Books” of the year from The Smithsonian, The Washington Independent Review, and more! From best-selling writer David Kamp, the “fun, fascinating, and surprisingly touching” (People) behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who ...

Sunny Days

While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, Predator, and X-Men: The ...

Bill Duke

An inclusive vision of mathematics - its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish  For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To mis...

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imag...

The Christian Imagination

Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you looking for practical strategies to engage with your students? Inspired by Frederick Douglass' abolitionist call to action, "it is ...

Not Light, but Fire

Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime, he became a legend in Cuba and one of Black America's most popular ...

Oscar Charleston

Train like Olympic marathoner and 2014 Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi With his historic win at the 2014 Boston Marathon, Meb Keflezighi cemented his legacy as one of the great champions of long-distance running. Runners everywhere wanted to kn...

Meb for Mortals

Theological education has always been about formation: first, of people; then, of communities; then, of the world. If we continue to promote Whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain dise...

After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging

"Downtrodden architect Glenn Washington and his none-too-bright sidekick Lennie help a crooked real estate baron flip houses in downtrodden Detroit. A house comes up that is too good to gut for parts. Too good to be true. Waaaay too good. Thing is, n...

There Was a Crooked Man, He Flipped a Crooked House

Two-time All-Star and 13-year NBA veteran Caron Butler has an impressive basketball record. He was Big East Co-Player of the Year at UConn, the 10th overall pick of the 2002 NBA Draft and a key player for the Dallas Mavericks in their championship-wi...

Tuff Juice

A bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom Movement In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance wa...

We Will Shoot Back

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racia...

Chocolate City

On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview ...

Despite the Best Intentions

T.D. Jakes’ He-Motions meets The Art of War in this accessible guidebook to help today’s man navigate and thrive in these unpredictable times.  Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, pastor of the megachurch Enon Tabernacle, shares wisdom from his ministry and lon...

Code of the Righteous Warrior

From New York Times best-selling author Alex Tresniowski comes a “compelling” (The Guardian) and “riveting” (The New York Times Book Review) true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of 10-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detect...

The Rope

This powerful book couldn’t come at a more timely juncture. With our deep misunderstanding of racial identity, the murder of transgender women increasing at an alarming rate, and the battle of faith and sexual orientation at churches across the count...

Live Through This

In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years - even after the development of penicillin, the cure for ...

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Are you looking to sell items on Amazon but have no idea how to get started? It is no doubt that the days of permanent stable jobs are slowly winding down to an end. While the employer wants productivity, the employee wants higher incomes, independen...

A Blueprint to Selling on Amazon

A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history. Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book tells a dif...

African Dominion

Debt-Free: Simple Steps to a Debt-Free Life Without the Hype is the audiobook that should be in everyone's personal library. Debt plays a big roll in your life. The unfortunate part is most people do not know how to control debt, and worse off is the...

Debt-Free: Simple Steps to a Debt-Free Life Without the Hype

Disney and Pixar’s Soul takes you on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to explore some of life’s biggest questions. Transported from his body on the most important day of his life, musician Joe Gardner has to convince a directionless soul named 22 to help him get back to Earth to fulfill his lifelong dream.

Soul

Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce.  We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference.  This book will inspire you to: ident...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity

August Wilson (1945-2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic everyday voice of black Americans. As a child, he read off soup cans and cereal boxes, and when his mother brought him ...

Feed Your Mind

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their o...

No Common Ground

House is the first descendant of disco. While Black and Hispanic communities were jamming and party DJs spinning records, a new birth of rhythm gave way to music lovers from Chicago and New York in the form known as house music. Developed in Chicago'...

House Rules: Dance with Me

Warning: This is the end of your life’s struggles and the beginning of the life of your dreams. Are you happy with your life? Do you ever find yourself wishing for more money, love, happiness, and satisfaction? Good. Because The Wealthy Mind is about...

The Wealthy Mind

An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white comma...

Now the Hell Will Start

Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history. Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the sam...

What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be Black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations ...

Race, Work, and Leadership

Sick of work? You’re definitely not getting paid enough to put up with those bossy bosses, and let’s be honest, you’re not happy. You’re not the only one who is in that position, and you’re definitely not the first one. In fact, many famous people ha...

Sick of the Boss

The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn't a White male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a Black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter...

The Brown Bullet

As the term “mindfulness” becomes more popular in modern culture, I think it has become more generalized. What I mean by that is when people hear the word mindfulness, they think that it's just a word in order to describe a state in which one is at p...

Mindfulness: A Beginners Guide to Mindfulness

This is the fascinating tale of human emergence, survival, and growth. Of our colorful past. Of world history.  Discover how we became all that we are today on a trip across the globe that spans 200,000 years of human history. Tour:  The Stone Age, d...

World History

Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the 20th century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own team...

Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Sport, Culture, and Society)

Unlike other biographies, the Making of America series goes beyond individual narratives, linking influential figures to create an overarching story of America's growth that will deepen understanding of the country we live in today.  This bundle feat...

The Making of America: Volume 2

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the America...

I Must Resist

When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over 300 currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know ...

What We Know

When Thurgood Marshall - the great-grandson of a slave - was born, African Americans were denied equal rights in America. Segregation was legal. Lynching was common. In some places, African Americans were entirely excluded from public life; they were...

Thurgood Marshall

In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure - the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist ...

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