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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America Author: Al Sharpton Narrator: Al Sharpton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “This is the time. We won’t stop until we change the whole system of justice.” —Reverend Al Sharpton In the summer of 2020, Reverend Al Sharpton stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, preparing to give the keynote address of theGet Your Knee Off Our NecksCommitment March. He noticed an older man in the crowd wearing a button from Dr. King’s 1963 march. The man told Sharpton that he had, in fact, been to the original March on Washington. “And,” he said, “I’ll keep coming back until we see justice.” While the mainstream media may know the major names of the movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes like this man who “keep coming back,” fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all. Whether working in civil rights, women’s rights, LGBTQIA rights, or in environmental justice, they heed the call when no one else is listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also gives his personal take on more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working in the social justice movement. At the same time, this book details the tumultuous year following George Floyd’s murder, with Sharpton delivering an up close and personal look at the behind-the-scenes work that forced today’s national reckoning on race. Here, he reveals his relationship with the Floyd family, the emotional moments that impacted him most, and why his work—and ours—isn’t finished, all while offering timeless lessons about the enduring strength and moral courage of the American people. For anyone who wants to be a changemaker or believes that truth and justice are worthwhile pursuits, Righteous Troublemakers is as inspirational as it is essential. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Also, don't miss Reverend Sharpton's previous book, Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads. Michael Eric Dyson calls it "a gift from Al Sharpton to us.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration Author: Ronnie Greene Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court’s most significant civil rights rulings.In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregationists vowed to flout the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the sweeping slate of civil rights reforms just signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Pickrick restaurant was run by Lester Maddox, soon to be governor of Georgia, and the Heart of Atlanta motel was operated by lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. After the law was signed, a group of ministry students—George Willis, Albert Dunn, and Woodrow Lewis—showed up for a plate of skilletfried chicken at the Pickrick; Maddox greeted them with a pistol, axe handles, and a mob of White supporters. At the Heart of Atlanta, ministers Albert Sampson and Charles Wells sought rooms, but Moreton Rolleston refused to accept the Black patrons.These confrontations became the centerpiece of the nation’s first two legal challenges to the Civil Rights Act. In gripping detail built from exclusive interviews and original documents, Heart of Atlanta reveals the saga of the case’s rise to the US Supreme Court, which unanimously rejected the segregationists. Heart of Atlanta restores the legal cases and their heroes to their proper place in history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism Author: Vanessa Machado De Oliveira Narrator: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado De Oliveira Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of.   Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability?   Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance--the do-gooder who does 'good enough,' then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker--and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back...and why it's time now to gradually disinvest. Including exercises used with teachers, NGO practitioners, and global changemakers, she offers us thought experiments that ask us to:   •  Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis •  Better assess our surroundings and interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure •  Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things •  Understand the '5 modern-colonial e's': Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism •  Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm •  Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness   For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Charles Eisenstein, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution Author: Jared Goldstein Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: December 31, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Real Americans Jared A. Goldstein boldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Goldstein demonstrates the well-established pattern of movements devoted to defending the power of dominant racial, ethnic, and religious groups that deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence. Goldstein describes this as constitutional nationalism, an ideology that defines being an American as standing with, and by, the Constitution. This history includes the Ku Klux Klan's self-declared mission to 'protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,' which served to justify its campaign of violence in the 1860s and 1870s to prevent Black people from exercising the right to vote; Protestant Americans who felt threatened by the growing population of Catholics and Jews and organized mass movements to defend their status and power; native-born Americans who resisted the rising population of immigrants and who mobilized to exclude the newcomers and their alien ideas; corporate leaders arguing that regulation is unconstitutional and un-American; and Timothy McVeigh, who believed he was defending the Constitution by killing 168 people with a truck bomb.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century Author: Bruce Dickson Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 31, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping. Delving into the tenuous binary of repression and responsivity, Bruce Dickson illuminates numerous questions surrounding the CCP's rule: How does it choose leaders and create policies? When does it allow protests? Will China become democratic? Dickson shows that the party's dual approach lies at the core of its practices—repression when dealing with existential, political threats or challenges to its authority, and responsiveness when confronting localized economic or social unrest. With the CCP's greater reliance on suppression since Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012, Dickson considers the ways that this tipping of the scales will influence China's future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites Author: Danielle Casarez Lemi, Nadia E. Brown Narrator: Mia Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Sister Style, Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi argue that Black women's political experience and the way that voters evaluate them is shaped overtly by their skin tone and hair texture, with hair being a particular point of scrutiny. They ask what the politics of appearance for Black women mean for Black women politicians and Black voters, and how expectations about self-presentation differ for Black women versus Black men, White men, and White women. Black women running for office face pressure, often from campaign consultants and even close colleagues, to change their style in order to look more like White women. However, as this book shows, Black women candidates and elected officials react differently to these pressures depending on factors like age and incumbency. Moreover, Brown and Lemi delve into the ways in which Black voters react to Black female candidates based on appearance. They base their argument, in part, on focus groups with Black women candidates and elected officials, and show that there are generational differences that determine what sorts of styles Black women choose to adopt and to what extent they change their physical appearance based on external expectations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed History and Reinvented Judaism Author: Yossi Shain Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As Israel increasingly becomes the center of global Jewish life, Jews everywhere are undergoing a process of Israelization.In this important breakthrough work, Yossi Shain takes us on a sweeping and surprising journey through the history of the Jewish people, from the destruction of the First Temple in the sixth century B.C.E. up to the modern era. Over the course of this long history, Jews have moved from a life of Diaspora, which ultimately led to destruction, to a prosperous existence in a thriving, independent nation state. The new power of Jewish sovereignty has echoed around the world and gives Israelis a new and significant role as influential global players.In the Israeli Century, the Jew is reborn, feeling a deep responsibility for his tradition and a natural connection to his homeland. A sense of having a home to return to allows him to travel the wider world and act with ease and confidence. In the Israeli Century, the Israeli Jew can fully express the strengths developed over many generations in the long period of wandering and exile.As a result, Shain argues, the burden of preserving the continuity of the Jewish people and defining its character is no longer the responsibility of Diaspora communities. Instead it now falls squarely on the shoulders of Israelis themselves. The challenges of Israeli sovereignty in turn require farsighted leaders with a clear-eyed understanding of the dangers that confront the Jewish future, as well as the incredible opportunities it offers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the US Government Shapes Cinematic Universes Author: Tom Secker, Tricia Jenkins Narrator: Christopher Douyard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 3, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Superheroes, Movies, and the State sets a new standard for exploring the government-Hollywood relationship as it persuasively documents the critical role different government agencies have played in shaping characters, stories, and even the ideas behind the hottest entertainment products. Jenkins and Secker cover a wide range of US government and quasi-governmental agencies who act to influence the content of superhero movies, including the Department of Defense, the National Academy of Sciences' Science and Entertainment Exchange, and the FBI and the CIA. The book includes interviews with both producers and influencer insiders and covers a wide range of superhero products, from 1970s TV shows up to the most recent movie and TV releases, including the first major analysis of the hit Amazon show The Boys. In addition, it is the first deep exploration of NASA's Hollywood office and the first detailed account of the role of the Science and Entertainment Exchange. Superheroes, Movies, and the State offers an innovative blend of research methods and interpretive frameworks, combining both production histories and deep readings of superhero texts to clearly reveal how the government-entertainment complex works in the world of blockbuster cinema to shape public perceptions of the United States, war, science, and much, much more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action Author: Susan Inches Narrator: Diana Gardiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An accessible, solutions-oriented guide for addressing the earth's environmental crisis and enacting meaningful change What can we as ordinary citizens do about climate change?' While countless environmental books focus on the causes of our current crisis, Advocating for the Environment is one of the first to focus on advocacy and policy-based solutions, arming readers with the tools they need to take action and enact change.   In Part I, environmental policy expert Susan Inches discusses storytelling, empathy, mindset, and how effective communication can help us collaborate with others, even those with opposing views. Part II focuses on practical skills like coalition building, media relations, communication strategy, and navigating political and bureaucratic obstacles that block large-scale legislation. The book also includes case studies, research, and templates to deepen learning. Professors and teachers, students, legislators, environmental clubs, and church groups will also find useful ideas and strategies on every page.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Author: Emily Pears Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Emily Pears investigates efforts by the founding generation's leadership to construct and strengthen political attachments in and among the citizens of the new republic. These emotional connections between citizens and their institutions were critical to the success of the new nation. The founders recognized that attachments do not form automatically and require constant tending. Emily Pears defines and develops a theory of political attachments based on an analysis of the approaches used in the founding era. In particular, she identifies three methods of political attachment—a utilitarian method, a cultural method, and a participatory method. Cords of Affection offers a comparative analysis of the theories and projects undertaken by a wide array of political leaders in the early republic and antebellum periods that exemplify each of the three methods. The work includes new historical analysis of the implementation of projects of nationalism and attachment, ranging from data on federal funding for internal improvements to analysis of Whig orations.