
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation's streets, demanding an end to police brutality...

The essential book on the prehistory of the George Floyd protests in 2020, America on Fire tells a story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era. Drawing on exclusive sources, acclaimed scholar Elizabeth Hinton uncovers a previously...
