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Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
40 mins; September 14, 2025
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
81 hours 1 min; September 09, 2025
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
79 hours 39 mins; August 29, 2025
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
58 mins; August 28, 2025
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
65 hours 45 mins; August 26, 2025
Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
42 mins; August 25, 2025
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
68 hours 3 mins; August 25, 2025
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
48 mins; August 24, 2025
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; August 23, 2025
Rima Vesely-Flad, "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation" (NYU Press, 2022)
92 hours 41 mins; August 22, 2025
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
41 mins; August 20, 2025
Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (Hauser & Wirth, 2024)
53 mins; August 19, 2025
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
64 hours 21 mins; August 19, 2025
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 18, 2025
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
39 mins; August 17, 2025
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
72 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; August 11, 2025
Bryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
56 mins; August 11, 2025
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
20 mins; August 10, 2025
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; August 09, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; August 08, 2025
Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025)
77 hours 50 mins; August 07, 2025
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
51 mins; August 07, 2025
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
78 hours 25 mins; August 06, 2025
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; July 30, 2025
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
49 mins; July 30, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
66 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2025
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023)
97 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2025
Asha Jeffers, "Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
39 mins; July 29, 2025
Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
33 mins; July 29, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
42 mins; July 25, 2025
Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement" (UNC Press, 2025)
74 hours 42 mins; July 24, 2025
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
33 mins; July 23, 2025
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
43 mins; July 22, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)
90 hours 39 mins; July 19, 2025
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; July 18, 2025
Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
30 mins; July 14, 2025
Andrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
76 hours 3 mins; July 10, 2025
Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 15 mins; July 07, 2025
Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025)
73 hours 0 mins; July 06, 2025
John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)
48 mins; July 05, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 03, 2025
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
78 hours 32 mins; July 01, 2025
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 20 mins; June 29, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; June 27, 2025
Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
50 mins; June 25, 2025
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 24, 2025
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
71 hours 14 mins; June 24, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
53 mins; June 17, 2025
Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
33 mins; June 17, 2025
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
79 hours 10 mins; June 11, 2025
Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
47 mins; June 10, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
62 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
66 hours 47 mins; June 03, 2025
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 32 mins; May 30, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
63 hours 53 mins; May 27, 2025
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
84 hours 30 mins; May 23, 2025
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
58 mins; May 16, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 14, 2025
James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
78 hours 30 mins; May 13, 2025
Ariel Nereson, "Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
32 mins; May 11, 2025
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
49 mins; May 10, 2025
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 09, 2025
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
56 mins; May 05, 2025
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
54 mins; May 02, 2025
Vanessa Priya Daniel, "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" (Random House, 2025)
53 mins; May 01, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
55 mins; April 29, 2025
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
74 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; April 26, 2025
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
63 hours 33 mins; April 25, 2025
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
46 mins; April 22, 2025
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
27 mins; April 20, 2025
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
76 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2025
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
27 mins; April 15, 2025
Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
57 mins; April 14, 2025
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
36 mins; April 13, 2025
Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)
45 mins; April 12, 2025
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
26 mins; April 10, 2025
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
54 mins; April 06, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 05, 2025
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
69 hours 8 mins; April 04, 2025
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
61 hours 58 mins; April 03, 2025
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
71 hours 44 mins; April 02, 2025
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
67 hours 24 mins; April 01, 2025
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
74 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)
37 mins; March 21, 2025
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
39 mins; March 19, 2025
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
64 hours 48 mins; March 15, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 14, 2025
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
75 hours 43 mins; March 11, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
64 hours 26 mins; March 10, 2025
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
67 hours 40 mins; March 09, 2025
Jack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
38 mins; March 04, 2025
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
24 mins; February 28, 2025
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 26, 2025
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