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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 43 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book America Made Me a Black Man by Boyah J Farah
    America Made Me a Black Man - by Boyah J Farah

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504844 | ISBN 10: 139850484x

    A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States.  “No one told me about America.†... more

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  • Cover image of book Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Dr Annabel Sowemimo
    Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare - by Dr Annabel Sowemimo

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781788169202 | ISBN 10: 1788169204

    A vital, eye-opening exploration of race and health.  A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023  'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO& ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier
    We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action - by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier

    £23.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629639727 | ISBN 10: 1629639729

    What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst?   We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today’s anti-fascist organizing in Nort ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Quite White by Laila Woozeer
    Not Quite White - by Laila Woozeer

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781471184208 | ISBN 10: 147118420x

    This is a story of belonging and not belonging, of not knowing if you exist and making sure that you do. This story is for ancestors and descendants, for the people without roles or representation who find themselves placed in a random mixed-up race. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson
    Caste: The Lies That Divide Us - by Isabel Wilkerson

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141995465 | ISBN 10: 0141995467

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon.  Linking A ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
    How to Be An Antiracist - by Ibram X. Kendi

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529111828 | ISBN 10: 152911182x

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society — and in ourselves.   Ant ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
    White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better - by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780143136439 | ISBN 10: 0143136437

    An instant New York Times Bestseller!  A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Option by Sukhdev Reel
    Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Option - by Sukhdev Reel

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914143571 | ISBN 10: 1914143574

    On 14 October 1997 Ricky Reel went missing following a racist attack in Kingston upon Thames. His three friends, who had also been racially abused, were able to regroup but Ricky never did. Seven days later Ricky’s body was found at the bottom of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
    How To Raise an Antiracist - by Ibram X. Kendi

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781847927453 | ISBN 10: 1847927459

    A New York Times Top 10 Bestseller  The author of the bestselling international phenomenon How to Raise an Antiracist offers a deeply considered and ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City
    The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice - by Scott Ellsworth

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785788604 | ISBN 10: 1785788604

    ** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **   'Fast-paced but nuanced... impeccably researched... a much-needed book' The Guardian   ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you a ... more

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  • Cover image of book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man
    His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x

    'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist  'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES  You know how he died. This is how ... more

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  • Cover image of book Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond by Valerie Mason-John
    Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond - by Valerie Mason-John

    £15.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781623175627 | ISBN 10: 1623175623

    A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers.  Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life–past, present, and future. Award-winn ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
    I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain - by Anita Sethi

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472983930 | ISBN 10: 1472983939

    One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller's Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight  "I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
    Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy - by Emmanuel Acho

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529067736 | ISBN 10: 1529067731

    "What terms are acceptable now to refer to black people and why has that changed over time?"  "If the N word is such a bad word, why do my black friends use it all the time?"  "How has systemic racism gotten so out of hand and how did ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
    Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children - by Patrick Hutchinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008444020 | ISBN 10: 0008444021

    'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.'   On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was ph ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
    The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World - by Kehinde Andrews

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241437445 | ISBN 10: 024143744x

    The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Grandmother
    My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - by Resmaa Menakem

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141996479 | ISBN 10: 0141996471

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood.  In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of dis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skin Deep: Dispelling the Science of Race by Gavin Evans
    Skin Deep: Dispelling the Science of Race - by Gavin Evans

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786078117 | ISBN 10: 1786078112

    Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That's certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would have you believe. Portraying themselves as brave defenders of the inconvenient truth, this group took ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
    Biased - by Jennifer Eberhardt

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786090195 | ISBN 10: 1786090198

    No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still don't treat people equally. Why not?Every day, unconscious biases affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behaviour in ways that are subtle and very difficult to recognise without in-dep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla Saad
    Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World - by Layla Saad

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529405101 | ISBN 10: 1529405106

    Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.   When Layla Saad began ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes by Elijah Lawal
    The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes - by Elijah Lawal

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529380811 | ISBN 10: 1529380812

    Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down.   In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not righ ... more

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  • Cover image of book How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
    How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance - by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781568588490 | ISBN 10: 1568588496

    This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute.  Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black, Listed by Jeffrey Boakye
    Black, Listed - by Jeffrey Boakye

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349700564 | ISBN 10: 0349700567

    AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.  These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
    Women, Race & Class - by Angela Y. Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241408407 | ISBN 10: 0241408407

    Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.   Tracin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
    Race After Technology - by Ruha Benjamin

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509526406 | ISBN 10: 1509526404

    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.   Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinis ... more

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  • Cover image of book The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line by Kojo Koram (Editor)
    The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line - by Kojo Koram (Editor)

    £18.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745338804 | ISBN 10: 0745338801

    The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe.   While laws prohibiting the produ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
    Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - by Akala

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473661233 | ISBN 10: 1473661234

    A searing modern polemic from the BAFTA- and MOBO-award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala.  From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Decolonising the University by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem NiĹźancıoÄźlu
    Decolonising the University - by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu

    £16.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338200 | ISBN 10: 0745338208

    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
    Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - by Afua Hirsch

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705039 | ISBN 10: 1784705039

    Where are you really from?   You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.   So why do people keep asking you where you are from?   Brit(ish) is abou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism by Noel A. Cazenave
    Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism - by Noel A. Cazenave

    £27.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781138549937 | ISBN 10: 1138549932

    Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Romaphobia: The Last Acceptable Form of Racism by Aidan McGarry
    Romaphobia: The Last Acceptable Form of Racism - by Aidan McGarry

    £17.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783603992 | ISBN 10: 1783603992

    Identifies the origins of Romaphobia, and points to meaningful ways to promote the inclusion of Roma in society.   Demonised by the media and persecuted for hundreds of years Roma communities are among the most persecuted groups in Europe. Based o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (Editors)
    Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter - by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783167 | ISBN 10: 1784783161

    "A major work... I couldn’t think of a more compelling and timely work such as this."(Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
    The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea - by Robert Wald Sussman

    £14.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780674660038 | ISBN 10: 067466003x

    Biological races do not exist — and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful ... more

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  • Cover image of book The
    The 'R' Word - by Kurt Barling

    £9.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849549424 | ISBN 10: 1849549427

    Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Beller
    Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction - by Steven Beller

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780198724834 | ISBN 10: 0198724837

    This Very Short Introduction examines and untangles the various strands of antisemitism seen throughout history, from medieval religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century.  Steven Beller reveals how the phenomenon grew as a political ... more

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  • Cover image of book Loathe Thy Neighbour by James O
    Loathe Thy Neighbour - by James O'Brien

    £8.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783960866 | ISBN 10: 1783960868

    Immigration is the thorny question that just won’t go away. It feeds a whole industry of commentators, pundits and politicians who take great delight in whipping us all into a frenzy, speaking for the ‘ordinary people’. But, when ugly prejudices are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) by Paul Stephenson
    Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) - by Paul Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906477394 | ISBN 10: 1906477396

    Paul Stephenson OBE is one of the leading black civil rights activists of his generation. It was in Bristol in 1963 that Paul and the black community took on the Bristol Omnibus Company that was refusing to employ black workers. The Bristol Bus Boyco ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Being Black Is, and What Being Black Isn
    What Being Black Is, and What Being Black Isn't - by Jacob Whittingham and Biscuit

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906190309 | ISBN 10: 1906190305

    Currently, the most powerful man in the world is Barack Obama and the most powerful woman in the world, according to many in the media industry, is Oprah Winfrey.  For the first time, being black and successful isn't just about being good at sin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Racism: A Beginner
    Racism: A Beginner's Guide - by Alana Lentin

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685431 | ISBN 10: 185168543x

    Despite the long struggle to eliminate racism, it is still very much with us. In fact, since 9/11, racism appears to be on the rise, making it more important than ever before to understand the meaning of race and the effect it has on society.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi
    Racism: A Very Short Introduction - by Ali Rattansi

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780192805904 | ISBN 10: 0192805908

    From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what a ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf by Vine Deloria Jr.
    We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf - by Vine Deloria Jr.

    £14.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780803259850 | ISBN 10: 0803259859

    We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insightful Indian spokesman turns his penetrating visio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches by Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
    Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches - by Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

    £14.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581266 | ISBN 10: 159558126x

    'I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!' - Martin Luther King, Jr.  Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded ... more

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  • Cover image of book And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen by Doreen Lawrence
    And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen - by Doreen Lawrence

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571234592 | ISBN 10: 0571234593

    This is the heartbreaking story of a mother's loss. It is also the story of how one ordinary black woman and her husband changed the face of British policing and the criminal justice system. In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of ... more

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