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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night�s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation�s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd�s death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg.Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters�each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney�Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life�and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson�s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night�s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation�s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd�s death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg.Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters�each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney�Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life�and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson�s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.