In the intensively researched His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa illuminate the life of a man whose untimely death reverberated around the world. This biography is both an exploration of George Floyd’s family roots, and an examination of how housing inequality, educational system disparities, the war on drugs, and the crisis of mass incarceration all led to a fateful moment in history that ignited protests against police brutality and racial injustice across the United States.