Stolen Justice - an audiobook review

Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
by Lawrence Goldstone | Read by James Shippy
Scholastic Audiobooks 2020

Following the Civil War, ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments was intended to guarantee civil rights to formerly enslaved people. It quickly became apparent, however, that many states were scheming to systematically erode these rights. Ironically, the justice system was the most effective instrument to dismantle African American rights.

I reviewed Stolen Justice for AudioFile Magazine several months ago, but because of current events, I'll post a link here now. You can read the entire review on the AudioFile Magazine website, but I will summarize and say,

If this audio book doesn't offend your sense of justice, you're not listening hard enough.

Audiobook Roundup

I'm not permitted to share my full reviews for AudioFile Magazine, but here are snippets and links to my recent reviews.  It's quite a disparate collection of titles!

The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and theEmergence of Black Power

By: Ann Bausum

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Recorded Books, 2017

Narrator Karen Chilton echoes the determination of Civil Rights activists in Mississippi's often overlooked but hugely influential March against Fear in 1966. 

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/134975/march-against-fear-by-ann-bausum/]

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Brilliance Audio, 2017

Award-winning narrator Simon Vance has the perfect English accent for this 1908 classic featuring four anthropomorphized friends: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. The Wind in the Willows was one of my childhood favorites.  It's a perfect book for shared family listening in the car.  I've listened to excerpts of several other versions of this audio book, and I believe that Simon Vance's recording may be the new standard by which others are judged. 

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/135515/the-wind-in-the-willows-by-kenneth-grahame/]

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo

By: F. C. Yee

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Recorded Books, 2017

Once Genie Lo's only concerns were college applications--that is, until the ancient Chinese Monkey King leapt upon her Silicon Valley school desk in the form of the scandalously handsome rebel Quentin Sun.

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/131656/the-epic-crush-of-genie-lo-by-fc-yee/]