I have attended Remembrance Day parades and been in them most my childhood even to young adult hood. Now, in Why We Kneel, How We Rise , Holding shares his story together with those of some of the most iconic athletes in the world.

But all around us as far as I could see nearly every front door was open with individuals or families gathered on their doorsteps respectfully joining us in the two minute silence.Our kids need to know about how badly people of color have been treated over the years, about all the brilliant and strong and brave people whose achievements were erased or stolen by white men, about how we are more alike than we are different. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Holding took his readers for a journey into the shameful history of mass brutality that has been going on for centuries. If ever a book title gave a prospective reader a clear indication of what a book is about, this is it. I’ll soon be on a plane out of here” – to gradually learning more about Black history and pride, institutional racism and its wide impact, and then with the BLM movement being motivated to speak out. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The truth might just be that Mikey wanted to spend more time playing with his grandkids, tending to his garden, and taking walks with his wife to the beach.ICYOLA devoted a part of its season finale concert to the young unarmed African Americans who have been victimized by gun violence, particularly at the hands of police. There are probably few who tuned in to watch the rain delayed England-West Indies cricket test on 8 July 2020 who forget the powerful discussion about racism, both in cricket and more widely, where Michael Holding, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Nasser Hussain spoke so frankly about their experiences of the game or the powerful pre-recorded piece featuring Holding and Rainford-Brent unpacking their experiences and the institutional racism that shaped them. I came to realise I couldn’t just stop there; I had to take it forward – hence the book, as I believe education is the way forward.

George Floyd was an African-American man who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was one of the few commentators who didn't kowtow to the Indian cricket board (the only other commentator I know who was similarly fearless was Ian Chappell – I love him too), and I always get goosebumps thinking about that.The language is raw, his observations unsparing, but there is no more important sports book this year . A land so poisonous that even the plague of locusts thought ‘Sod this - shall we go to Mcdonalds instead?

He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. While the musicians performed, a powerful video encompassing the entirety of American history, showed the never-ending sequence of punishing people in America for “living while Black”—slave auctions, beatings, whippings, Jim Crow lynchings, voter suppression, attacks on civil rights marches, and always, killing, killing, killing. It's not enough to read this book only, it's necessary to share and spread all these stories, it's important to have the conversation cause education comes in different forms. Why We Kneel, How We Rise' is a beautiful book, a powerful book, a heartbreaking book, an inspiring book. If you find them to be a little too big or small, let us know and we can exchange them for another size.

Holding recounts historical stories and contemporary actions which will be well known to any reader with a decent academic knowledge around institutionalised racism. In normal times, this misguided book would not have seen the light of day, in these febrile times, the author will probably get the Nobel prize for literature! Even when it's spelled out to them in petitions to change the UK curriculum or take down statues of slave-owners, even when we are exposed to the information - "too many listened and danced [to the music of Burning Spear and Bob Marley] without actually hearing.