NEW YORK (AP) — Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.
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Viking announced Wednesday that His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, will come out next May, nearly two years to the day of Floyd’s death.
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The book expands upon the Post’s six-part series George Floyd’s America, winner of a Polk award for justice reporting.
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“George Floyd’s gruesome, videotaped death changed the world, as millions were moved by the raw humanity of a dying man pleading for air,” Olorunnipa said in a statement. “As we’ve examined his life over the past year, we’ve learned how his struggle to exhale as a Black man in America began decades before a police officer’s knee landed on his neck.”
This cover image released by Viking shows ” “His Name Is George Floyd; One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnip. (Viking via AP)
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