num_pages: 220
description: As a member of the 1992 world-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 a vocal union activist initiated a boycott against Nike and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating.But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career after ten NBA seasons Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice.In this powerful passionate and captivating memoir Hodges shares the storiesincluding encounters with Nelson Mandela Coretta Scott King Jim Brown R. Kelly Michael Jordan and othersfrom his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.
language: English
title: Long Shot
publisher: Haymarket Books