Books about racial discrimination become best-sellers as U.S. protests grow

Demonstrators take part in a protest in response to the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From "White Fragility" to "The New Jim Crow," literature about the history of racial discrimination in the United States is selling out as white Americans seek to educate themselves as nationwide protests grow over the killing of unarmed black people.

As the death of George Floyd, who was pinned under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, has prompted more than a week of street protests throughout the states, Americans at home are turning to books, movies and television shows that lay bare decades of discrimination.