The book expands upon the Post's six-part series ``George Floyd's America,'' winner of a Polk award for justice reporting.

`George Floyd's gruesome, videotaped death changed the world, as millions were moved by the raw humanity of a dying man pleading for air,` Olorunnipa said in a statement. `As we've examined his life over the past year, we've learned how his struggle to exhale as a Black man in America began decades before a police officer's knee landed on his neck.''