Robert Samuels

Finalist, 2022 National Book Awards

Robert Samuels is a national political enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who focuses on the intersection of politics, policy, and people. He previously wrote stories about life in the District for the Post’s social issues team.
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

book cover for Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
ISBN 9780593490617 Viking Books / Penguin Random House

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 >

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Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading

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Robert Samuels

Robert Samuels is a national political enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who focuses on the intersection of politics, policy, and people. He previously wrote stories about life in the District for the Post’s social issues team. Samuels joined the Post in 2011 after spending nearly five years working at the Miami Herald.

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