Authors Of George Floyd Book Say They Were Told Not To Discuss Systemic Racism At Public School Speaking Engagement

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated November 15, 2023

Is it possible to talk about George Floyd’s life, murder at the hands of the police, and the activism his death sparked without talking about systemic racism? This is the very dilemma Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa faced when making a presentation about their book at a Tennessee school.

Initially the two co-authors of award-winning book “His Name Is George

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