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The Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow and focused the electoral power of black America.

The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The twenty-six-year-old white American was brutally murdered during the final days of apartheid.

Writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.

Liu lays out the elements and the strategies of citizen power, showing when to create a hashtag, when to call your Congressman, and when to take to the streets.

Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.

"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits," proclaims the Universal Declaration

"Canada's first woman trained for combat, a decorated officer in the "Van Doos" the legendary Royal 22nd Regiment, comes up against a system of institutional sexism.

Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall was pulled down by Berliners fed up with the division of their city, Stan Persky returns to Eastern Europe.

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear-fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccine

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler.

Born into slavery, Callie House helped create the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899 as a freedwoman.

Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s.

Branch condenses his three-volume chronicle on race and democracy to its pivotal scenes, taking listeners on a journey into a political revolution that would change the face of America.

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community.