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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a nation could look at a people every day and still refuse to see their souls? In *The Souls of Black Folk*, W. E. B. Du Bois created one of the defining works of African American literature, social thought, and moral witness. First published in...

Un viaje fascinante por la historia cultural del miedo, desde los oráculos griegos hasta los monstruos posmodernos, que revela cómo nuestras sociedades han dado forma a sus terrores para comprender (y controlar) el mundo. Desde los oráculos de la antigua Grecia hasta los monstruos de la...

Voimaa ja viisautta pohjoisen luonnon eläinmyyteistä. Millaisia tarinoita esivanhempamme kertoivat karhusta, sudesta, ketusta ja linnuista? Miksi saukkoa pidettiin noidan ja tietäjän apulaisena? Myyttiset eläimet -kirja kertoo 40 Suomen luonnossa esiintyvästä eläinlajista ja niihin...

An urgent anthology featuring some of the most eminent Black voices of our time reckoning with, reacting to, and rewriting the Declaration of Independence for both the crisis of our present moment and the promise of our future freedom When discussing the American experiment, the Declaration of...

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an...

THE 'FOREMOST EGYPTOLOGIST OF HIS TIME', TOBY WILKINSON, UNVEILS THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF THE NUBIANS The Nubians created the largest African state ever to exist, stretching for more than 1500 miles, north to south. Nubian civilisation began before the pharaohs ruled in Egypt, and it was still there...

Out of Difficulty: Hope Lives On is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the connected journeys of two American families shaped by their founding patriarchs, George Simmons and Elijah Sharkey. Born into the antebellum South, these African American men came of age in a nation struggling to define itself—and their families carried that unfinished struggle forward across generations. Set against the backdrop of war, Reconstruction, violence, migration, betrayal, and tragedy, the Simmons and Sharkey families built legacies rooted in land, kinship, faith, and perseverance.

BED-STUY: Where It Started is a raw, heartfelt look at growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, told through the eyes of Keeda. From family, block life, childhood games, school days, street pressure, style, survival, and change, this book captures the neighborhood with honesty, love, and memory. It is not just a story about where Keeda came from. It is a tribute to the place that shaped him.

For four decades, Johnisha Matthews Levi believed a conventional story about her birth, picturing her happy parents at the hospital together. While sorting through her late mother's belongings, however, she discovered a document indicating that her father was instead serving time in Lorton Correctional Complex. This revelation, along with rumors about an FBI investigation of her deceased parents' "private business," leads Levi to unearth the hidden history of her family.

In this meticulously researched and vividly written account, a prominent historian reclaims a forgotten incident of racial violence in the Jim Crow South. The Rifle and the Plough reconstructs a little-known episode from the summer of 1910, when the Black farming settlement of Sandy Beulah in...

Sex är ett ämne som man spontant kanske inte förknippar med religion. Men sambandet mellan de två företeelserna är starkt. Religionerna har länge format många av de normer och regler som ligger till grund för vår syn på sex än i dag. Ofta har religiösa företrädare haft en negativ...

För dig som tycker om historia. För dig som är nyfiken på en del av historien som det sällan berättats om. Kvinnohistorien. Målande, nästintill skönlitterärt berättad och samtidigt en faktaåtergivande vandring genom årtusenden. Forntida kvinnor jägare, vikingahustru, prästinna...

Vinnare av Pulitzerpriset I den här storslagna biografin skildrar Jonathan Eig medborgarrättsikonen Martin Luther King Jr. som en stor tänkare, en skicklig strateg och aktivist som ledde en av historiens största rörelser, och vars krav på etnisk och social rättvisa är lika aktuella idag...

I sin självbiografi berättar Ebonita Baldeh om hur hon som barn blev utsatt för trafficking av en nära vän till familjen. Som sexårig flicka förlorade hon för alltid sin barndom då hon hämtades hemma av en man med lovordet att få leka med hans son. Under flera år fick hon därefter...

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable...

Una llamada a la esperanza: pensar colectivamente un futuro más libre, justo y verdaderamente humano. David Graeber nos recuerda que el mundo actual no es una fatalidad, sino una construcción humana. Su esperanza no es ingenua, sino una forma de acción: la certeza de que podemos imaginar y...

Black, Not Historically Black by Joseph L. Jones is a compelling exploration of the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Jones, a seasoned political scientist and former HBCU president, delves into the systemic issues of leadership...

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. ""A book to make you love math."" —Financial Times Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the...

Compromise has three colors. The American church has a history of creating and maintaining racist ideas and practices. This audio original recording from NYT bestselling author Jemar Tisby is based on the themes introduced in The Color of Compromise but goes a step further, showing how...