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Forum from the Archives: Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked


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We remember George Floyd, five years after his murder by a Minneapolis police officer. In the days and months after Floyd’s death, millions of Americans took to the streets to protest racism and police violence, ushering in a new era of racial reckoning. Robert Samuels, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “His Name is George Floyd,” wonders however if “the backlash feels more enduring than the reckoning itself.”  We’ll talk about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.


Guests:

Robert Samuels, national political enterprise reporter, The Washington Post - co-author, "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and them Struggle for Racial Justice"

Clyde McGrady, national correspondent covering race, The New York Times

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