**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE
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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.
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"Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening." **-Ibram
X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
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"Crushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of
black pain." -Isabel Wilkerson, bestselling author of Caste
Formidable, compelling...has much to offer on our nation's crucial need
for racial reckoning and the way forward. -Bryan Stevenson,
bestselling author of Just Mercy
The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-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.
