Say Their Names How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Curtis Bunn, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston

eBook - 2021

This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd. For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and intrapersonal changes that followed. It is a simple story, wherein white America finally witnessed enough brutality to move their collective consciousness. The only problem is that it isn't true. George Floyd was not the first Black man to be killed by police—he wasn’t even the first to inspire nation-wide protests—yet ...his death came at a time when America was already at a tipping point. In Say Their Names, five seasoned journalists probe this critical shift. With a piercing examination of...

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Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Main Authors
Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Curtis Bunn, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston
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File Size1 GB
ISBN9781538737842
Release Date10/5/2021
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ASINB08W521CQK
Release Date10/5/2021
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ISBN9781538737842
Release Date10/5/2021