His Name Is George Floyd. One man’s life and the struggle for racial justice
Роберт Сэмюэлс, Толусе Олоруннипа, Samuels Robert Ещё 1 автор
You know how he died. This is how he lived.
Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?
The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to Sao Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life.
In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his…
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Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?
The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to Sao Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life.
In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his…
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MARK WHITAKER, THE WASHINGTON POST
"... detailed, vivid and moving ... Perhaps for legal reasons, Samuels and Olorunnipa are uncharacteristically vague about other figures involved in leading Floyd to this fateful step, as well as in later getting him to appear in an amateur porn video ... In the page-turner second half of the book, the authors largely put aside efforts to link Floyd to broader racial trends and statistics as they follow him to Minneapolis, where he moved in 2017 in hopes of starting over ... The ups and downs of the last part of the book, which chronicles the aftermath of Floyd's murder, also make for poignant reading."
Дата написания: 2022
Лауреат:
2023 г. — Дейтонская литературная премия мира (Научно-популярная книга)
Номинант: 2023 г. — Книжная премия Дж. Энтони Лукаса
2022 г. — Выбор сайта Goodreads (Лучшая история и биография)
Номинант: 2023 г. — Книжная премия Дж. Энтони Лукаса
2022 г. — Выбор сайта Goodreads (Лучшая история и биография)
