Too Black, Too Strong

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Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; WHAT AM I GOING ON ABOUT?; Bought and Sold; What If; Breakfast in East Timor; What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us; To Ricky Reel; To Michael Menser; Having a Word; Reminders; Appeal Dismissed; Chant of a Homesick Nigga; This Be The Worst; Time; The Woman Has to Die; Kill Them Before Ramadan; The Empire Comes Back; The Men from Jamaica Are Settling Down; I Neva Shot de Sheriff; Carnival Days; Naked; Adultery; Going Cheap; Christmas Has Been Shot; Two Dozen Babylon; Three Black Males; We People Too.;Too Black, Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's latest collection from Bloodaxe, addressing the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. It includes poems written while working with Michael Mansfield QC and other Tooks barristers on the Stephen Lawrence case and other high profile political trials. Zephaniah is a poet who won't stay silent, who doesn't pull any punches, writing out of a sense of urgency and a commitment to social justice.