Standing reminds us that at the center of our struggle…

"A story that takes us from Dallas to Canada and Liberia to Leavenworth Penitentiary, Ernest McMillan’s moving account of his journey toward consciousness and into exile is a reminder of the high stakes of our liberation struggle. It is a sacrifice made in the throes and depths of love for the people. Through personal reflections on the life of an organizer and prison letters to his mother, Eva “Mama Mack” McMillan, Ernest shares but a glimpse of how movement histories must be reimagined in their fullness by those who lived them. Full of both honest and radical critique and righteous indignation at the systemic sources of our pain, Standing reminds us that at the center of our struggle has always been the strengths of our families, the sanctity of our communities, and the totality of our commitments to life, to our lives—a universal, yet unquestionably Black source of our strength." -  Joshua Myers, Howard University, Author of Of Black Study