His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

"Most of the world knows George Floyd as the symbol of a new movement for racial justice. Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa tell the story of George Floyd the man, before he was killed under a white police officer’s knee. He liked telling people he loved them. He suffered lifelong claustrophobia. A large Black man, he knew he made people nervous, so he went out of his way to put them at ease. This deeply reported biography reaches into history to help us understand how the forces of racism shaped every aspect of Floyd’s life, up to his tragic death."