"I could see the book being mentioned everywhere," she said. "It was a moment where a lot of people were like suddenly alerted to the depth of what races really looked like" She used her blog post to raise money for an organization that bailed out protestes in minneapolis at the time, and urged others to do the same. 'At the end of the day, i've wrtten this book. It might give you some understanding, or some tolks'
Reni Eddo-Lodge, the journalist, podcaster and author of essential book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, joins columnist, author and academic Gary Younge in conversation. As the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement reverberated around the world in 2020, Eddo-Lodge's book, originally published in 2017, found new readers and topped bestseller lists in a world trying and make sense of a pivotal moment. The book is now available as an updated edition reflecting on some of those more recent events and the conversations that have followed over the past two years.
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