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June 23, 2021

HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD
by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
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Non-fiction: Biography
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WP reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa's HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD: ONE MAN'S LIFE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, a biography of George Floyd, placing his life in the context of this country's larger history of systemic racism in housing, health care, education, prisons, and policing, to offer a look into the forces and experiences that shaped Floyd while contrasting his trajectory with that of Derek Chauvin and the events that ultimately brought the two men together, to Ibrahim Ahmad at Viking, at auction, for publication in May 2022, by Karen Brailsford and Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management on behalf of The Washington Post (NA).

Rights also to Andrea Henry at Transworld (UK), at auction, by Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein; to Fischer (Germany), in a pre-empt, by Uwe Neumahr at Agence Hoffman; to Marginesy (Poland), in a pre-empt, by Piotr Wawrzenczyk at Book/lab Literary Agency; and to Like (Finland), in a pre-empt, by Willem Bisseling at Sebes & Bisseling.

Read the award-winning Washington Post series, "George Floyd's America," that inspired the book here. 
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      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Talks >
      • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
      • Knowing the Soul (conversation)
      • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
      • Go Directly to Jubilee! (talk)
    • Paintings
  • Agent
    • Aevitas Creative Management
    • Writer's Digest
    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
    • Short Stories >
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Floating Like Butterflies
      • Feast
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
  • Unity
    • Daily Word Magazine >
      • My Journey to Yes
    • Spirituality & Health Magazine >
      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
    • Unity Magazine >
      • Smells Like Teen Spirit
      • From Grief to Grace
      • Rising in Joy
      • Blessed by a Dress
      • This Is How You Pray
      • For A Reason, for a Season, or for a Lifetime
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