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On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. More about this book >
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice, which received the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award. He is also the author of The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award, and the critically acclaimed picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Book Award, the Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller I Am Every Good Thing. Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times bestselling companion picture books The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten. He is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Dr. Tinka Barnes and their four sons.
(Photo credit: Isaiah Anderson – Eyesun Photography)
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