Toluse Olorunnipa

Toluse Olorunnipa is an American journalist and staff writer at The Washington Post, where he covers the White House and national politics. Born to Nigerian immigrant parents, he studied at Princeton University and received a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He previously reported for Bloomberg News and covered Florida politics before joining the Post. Olorunnipa co-wrote, with Washington Post colleague Robert Samuels, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2022), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2023, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction. The book has been widely praised as a definitive account of Floyd's life and the broader forces of racial injustice that his death brought to global attention. Olorunnipa is also a CNN political analyst. He continues to report on the intersection of race and power in American political life for The Washington Post.