TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samuels, Robert, 
AU  - Olorunnipa,Toluse
TI  - His name is George Floyd : : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice 
SN  - 9780593490617
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Transworld
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Police brutality
KW  - Murder victims
KW  - Racism
N2  - "His Name Is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston's housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country's enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd's family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction—putting today's inequality into uniquely human terms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd's closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd’s America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world."--
ER  -