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The Colour of Injustice
- Author
- Lee Lawrence
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 2 October 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark a violent uprising and dominate his life for the next 30 years as he fought for justice and for the police to admit their wrongdoing.
Though there remains much work to be done, Lee Lawrence is also an inspiring guide who highlights the many positive changes that have taken place and outlines those still needing to be enacted. Against the backdrop of the hard-learned lessons of years gone by, The Colour of Injustice also lays the foundation for a pathway to the future to move towards a truly anti-racist society.
Critics Review
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If you want to rid the world of the pernicious evil that is racism you need to study its history, understand the need to apologise for it, and be active in eradicating it. If you want to help, whatever you choose to do, start by reading Lee's brilliant book
Neil Basu QPM former Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations, Metropolitan Police Service and now co-host of ‘The Crime Agents'
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Details
- Author
- Lee Lawrence
- Narrator
- Lee Lawrence, Trieve Blackwood Cambridge
- Duration
- 9 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9780349146720
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
Through a deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Lee Lawrence seamlessly combines historical fact with his dramatic first-hand experiences of racial injustice to present vivid stories - from the Somali sailor who was wrongly convicted of murder in Cardiff in 1952 to the assault on professional footballer Dalian Atkinson and from the hounding of Notting Hill's Mangrove Club to Black Lives Matter - that chronicle how Britain's Black community has been mistreated.Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark a violent uprising and dominate his life for the next 30 years as he fought for justice and for the police to admit their wrongdoing.Though there remains much work to be done, Lee Lawrence is also an inspiring guide who highlights the many positive changes that have taken place and outlines those still needing to be enacted. Against the backdrop of the hard-learned lessons of years gone by, The Colour of Injustice also lays the foundation for a pathway to the future to move towards a truly anti-racist society.
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