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Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa are reporters for\xa0The Washington Post\xa0and co-authors of the new book\xa0His Name Is George Floyd: One Man\u2019s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.\n\u201cLooking at George Floyd's family history, looking at the poverty that he grew up in, looking at the schools that he attended, which were segregated, looking at the opportunities that were denied to him and the struggles he had in the criminal justice system\u2014it's an extraordinary American experience, in part because it's so outside of the norm of what we think of when we think of the American dream\u2026. And so we wanted to be able to showcase that that kind of extraordinary American experience is ordinary for so many people.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@newsbysamuels\n\n@ToluseO\n\nSamuels\u2019s\xa0Washington Post\xa0archive\n\nOlorunnipa\u2019s\xa0Washington Post\xa0archive\n\n00:00\xa0His Name Is George Floyd: One Man\u2019s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice\xa0(Viking \u2022 2022)\n\n03:00\xa0"Covid-19 Is Ravaging Black Communities. A Milwaukee Neighborhood Is Figuring Out How to Fight Back."\xa0(Robert Samuels \u2022 Washington Post \u2022 Apr 2020)\n\n04:00\xa0"Stumbling Toward Wokeness"\xa0(Robert Samuels \u2022 Washington Post \u2022 Jul 2020)\n\n05:00\xa0"George Floyd\u2019s America"\xa0(Washington Post Staff \u2022 Washington Post \u2022 Oct 2020)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices