Long Time Coming

In this passionate call for racial reckoning, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson traces the brutal crucible of racism in America and charts a path towards redemption.
"Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening." -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
"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, 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 not seen since the sixties. While Floyd's death was the catalyst, it lit the fuse on an ever-filling powder keg.
In Long Time Coming, Michael Eric Dyson grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. Across 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 systemic racism.
Ending with a poignant plea for hope, this necessary guide points the way to social redemption as America finally reckons with race. Long Time Coming is an instant national bestseller and a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and combat racial injustice.