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Robert Samuels is an award-winning journalist and author. Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa wrote His Name is George Floyd, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Learn more >

The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by white officer Derek Chauvin. More about this book >
Robert Samuels is an award-winning journalist and author. Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa wrote His Name is George Floyd, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Robert’s homebase is at The Washington Post, where he writes in-depth stories about policy, people, and our evolving American identity. He has also worked as a staff writer at the Miami Herald and The New Yorker. Robert grew up in The Bronx and resides in Washington, DC.
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