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The William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 Winner
It is our great pleasure to confirm Why We Kneel, How We Rise by Michael Holding as the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021.
Bringing together powerful testimony from across the world of sport, commentator and former cricketer Michael Holding – whose impassioned on-air speech about the Black Lives Matter movement sparked an incredible response – delivers an eloquent, thoughtful and unflinching examination of systemic racism in both sport and society.
This Is The Book: Why We Kneel How We Rise
Sporting icons combine in a call for better education to beat racism.
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Please note: Unfortunately, two of this year’s selected titles – Becoming Brutal by Claire Smith and Black Champions in Cycling by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe – are currently unavailable on our website and so are not shown in our list below.
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