{"id":13722,"date":"2023-03-30T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13722"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:38:12","slug":"his-name-is-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/his-name-is-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"His Name is George Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Robert Samuels\u00a0and\u00a0Toluse Olorunnipa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Name Is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston\u2019s housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country\u2019s enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd\u2019s family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction\u2014putting today\u2019s inequality into uniquely human terms.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/0593490614?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_0QGC8PKK1S3JZGVSN67J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Name is George Floyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[84],"class_list":{"0":"post-13722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adult","8":"tag-anti-racism","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13725,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions\/13725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}