Audiobooks for Juneteenth 2024
June 19, 2024
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Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day—recognizes the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth, observed on June 19th, commemorates African-American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. These audiobooks reflect on our past and explore Black history and culture.
Written by Clay Cane
Performed by Clay Cane
Published by Recorded Books
An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. By studying these figures and their tactics, Cane exposes the grift and lays out a plan to emancipate our future.
Written by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
Performed by Korey Jackson
Published by Recorded Books
Winner of the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
A Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor Book
A Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Booklist Best Book of the Year
Cowritten with Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient Derrick Barnes, Victory. Stand! paints a stirring portrait of an iconic moment in Olympic history that still resonates today.
Written by Jason Reynolds
Performed by Jason Reynolds
Published by Recorded Books
A Caldecott Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
You are invited. To a most marvelous party. For a most marvelous man. A man who turned the alphabet into thump a bump. Who turned words into jazz into rivers into bustin’ a move. All of his word-children will be there, uh-huh. Because it’s a party for Langston. Langston Hughes. King o’ Letters. Renaissance Man. So don’t be shy. Come on in. To the Hoopla in Harlem. Everyone is welcome.
Written by Debbie Hines
Performed by Karen Chilton
Published by Recorded Books
In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people.
Written by F. Erik Brooks and Drs. Glenn L. Starks
Performed by Kim Staunton
Published by Recorded Books
“Ms. Chisholm’s boldness and contributions to the fight for equality for women and people of color are on full display in A Seat at the Table.”—Dr. Jermaine Wright, Vice President for Student Affairs at Lehman College/CUNY
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it.
Written by Raymond Arsenault
Performed by Jaime Lincoln Smith
Published by Tantor Audio
In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.”
Written by Michael G. Long
Performed by Bill Andrew Quinn
Published by Tantor Audio
With expansive, searching, and sometimes critical essays from a range of esteemed writers—including Rustin’s own partner, Walter Naegle—this volume draws a full picture of Bayard Rustin: a gay, pacifist, socialist political radical who changed the course of US history and set a precedent for future civil rights activism, from LGBTQ+ Pride to Black Lives Matter.
Written by Gene Andrew Jarrett
Performed by Mirron Willis
Published by Tantor Audio
Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Paul Laurence Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.
Written by Sherelle Green
Performed by iiKane and Winston James
Published by Tantor Audio
After opening a cultural community center in the heart of Chicago, Porter Crowne is determined to make The Blackout Fest the best Juneteenth celebration yet. Especially when chosen as Mr. Black Chicago. Partnering with influential members of the community will ensure its success. However, if you aren’t following the plan, you’re in his way just like the curvy, feisty vlogger who argues with every suggestion he has.
Written by Audre Lorde
Performed by Mia Ellis
Published by Tantor Audio
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s “intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible” (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of listeners.