We are honored that Victory. Stand! by Serendipity authors Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes and illustrator Dawud Anyabwile is among the five finalists for the 2022 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature!
“With collaborators Barnes and Anyabwile, Smith details his childhood leading up to his historic Olympic protest—and its aftermath—in this compelling graphic memoir… Anyabwile’s grayscale art features kinetically illustrated athletic competition, tense racial dynamics, and a large, intricately detailed Black family. Smith’s timely story, whose nonlinear timeline highlights both prominent events during the civil rights movement and Smith’s interpersonal struggles, is a powerful celebration of resistance.”
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice is available wherever books are sold.