As a member of the 1991 NBA-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H.W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also an activist and union spokesman, pushing for a boycott of Nike and strongly denouncing police brutality in the wake of images of the beating of Rodney King that went around the world. But his frankness paid off: in the prime of his career, after ten seasons in the NBA, he was excluded from competition for using his status as a professional athlete to defend just causes. In these powerful, passionate and captivating memoirs, the two-time NBA champion and unsurpassed triplist shares the experiences of a lifetime dedicated to improving the conditions of the black community in the United States: from encounters with other prominent black activists such as Nelson Mandela, C...read more