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 knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. 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 in the United States since the 1960s. Occuring during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color, Floyd's death was certainly the catalyst that lit the fuse on an ever-filling powder keg. In Long Time Coming, Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-Blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life - and where America gained the will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Book jacket.