Activist Ijeoma Oluo calls upon her years of experience and numerous contacts to assemble this collection of interviews with leaders across the social justice movement. As narrator, her gentle vocal tone does not diminish her steely resolve to call upon each listener to become more involved and to have a greater understanding of the needs of all people. First-person accounts from LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and the Black Lives Matter movement cover all aspects of social justice in multiple systems, including education, media, labor, health, and more. Oluo's narration is both sensitive and powerful as she explores the intersection of change makers. C.F © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
Pub Date: Jan. 30, 2024
Duration: 14 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780063140202
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Kozol’s shocking exposé of inequities in the funding of our public schools contrasts white suburban schools with those serving black and Hispanic populations. Interviews with students, teachers, and school administrators add eloquent testimony to Kozol’s disturbing presentation of facts. Narration by Jack Winston is clear and brisk, but the pace is unrelenting, with little pause for transition between scenes or chapters. Winston’s cool, detached voice contrasts with Kozol’s impasssioned and outraged message. The sheer repetition and magnitude of Kozol’s damning evidence is numbing; the narration gives no relief. Powerful medicine, most easily taken in small doses. Music signalling tape changes is jarringly inappropriate.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 8 hrs
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
The road to online romance has victims on both sides of the ocean.
Nathan Luwa’s mastery of Nigerian accents lends authenticity to his narration and humanizes the four digital scammers profiled in this nonfiction exposé. Flush with wired money and gift cards, these youths (nicknamed Yahoo Boys) spend their nights trolling lonely Americans on the internet and their days living off hotel room service, buying Gucci for girlfriends and watered-down champagne for friends. They share backstories of extreme poverty and an inability to envision a future; Yahoo Boys don’t save or plan ahead, living from one romance scam to the next. The author has a personal stake in all this—his mother gave thousands of dollars to a Yahoo Boy posing as a U.S. soldier—and he spent months embedded among Yahoo Boys in Lagos.
The road to online romance has victims on both sides of the ocean.Pub Date: June 9, 2026
Duration: 9 hrs, 4 mins
DD ISBN: 9781250459060
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Review Posted Online: July 21, 2026
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2026
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