Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa join The Stacks to discuss their book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. We talk about giving George Floyd the “presidential” biography treatment, and why they chose to tell his story now. They reveal how they tackled writing such a massive book with over 400 interviews, and what the fact-checking process was like. We also ask, ‘who is the audience for this book?’
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is True Biz by Sarah Nović. We will discuss the book on December 28th with Greta Johnsen.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
- The Washington Post
- George Floyd’s America (Washington Post, 2020)
- The Miami Herald
- Viking Press
- Ibrahim Ahmad
- “Kanye West’s false claim about George Floyd’s death may spur lawsuit” (Janelle Griffith, NBC News)
- The New York Post
- The Wall Street Journal
- The New York Times
- Toni Morrison
- Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
- Hadestown soundtrack (Anaïs Mitchell, 2019)
- Aaliyah on Spotify
- Rock the Boat (Aaliyah, 2001)
- We Need a Resolution (Aaliyah, 2001)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lerner and Loewe
- Vampire Weekend
- Maxwell
- Jason Reynolds
- Joe Biden
- Jesse Jackson
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- Roots by Alex Haley
- Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- George W. Bush
- Dion Graham
- His Name is George Floyd audiobook
- It Was All a Dream audiobook
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