Toluse Olorunnipa His Name Is George Floyd

About the author:

Author and journalist Toluse “Tolu” Olorunnipa is the White House Bureau Chief of the Washington Post. He joined the Post in 2019. Previously, he spent five years at Bloomberg News, where he reported on politics and policy from Washington and Florida. Olorunnipa reported from five continents and more than 20 countries as part of the presidential press corps for the last three presidents.

About the book:

His Name Is George Floyd, which Toluse Olorunnipa co-authored with Robert Samuels, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. This landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.

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