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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
2 reviews
cmsmith's review
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Beautifully and hauntingly written. My only complaint is that the chapters are a little long (which makes it hard to have the time to sit and read if you’re the kind of person that feels the need to finish a chapter before closing the book).
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, and Medical trauma
leweylibrary's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Incredibly well researched and thoroughly detailed, this book is an absolutely must read for understanding the world in which George Floyd lived and died and, perhaps most importantly, who he was as a person and the legacy he leaves behind and the work still left to do towards racial justice. It's long and heavy, but it was never boring or dry or too much (although beware going into the scenes of his death, those are definitely very, very intense and probably very triggering for many people).
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts
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