George Floyd biography to be published in May 2022

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) (Uncredited)

NEW YORK ā€“ 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.

Viking announced Wednesday that ā€œHis Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,ā€ 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 ā€œGeorge Floydā€™s America,ā€ winner of a Polk award for justice reporting.

ā€œGeorge Floydā€™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. ā€œAs weā€™ve examined his life over the past year, weā€™ve learned how his struggle to exhale as a Black man in America began decades before a police officerā€™s knee landed on his neck.ā€


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