Her young adult novel, Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury, 2017) received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Renée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared towards increasing the numbers of investigative reporters of color. She has also won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor distinguished journalism award from Columbia University.
In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. Nikkolas also speaks on his Artivism at conferences, workplaces, and schools around the world, and leads workshops in digital painting, character, and movie poster design. Many of his viral, globally shared and published sketches are included in his book Sunday Sketch: The Art of Nikkolas. He is the author/illustrator of The Golden Girls of Rio, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, My Hair Is Poofy And That's Okay, and World Cup Women. As a Black illustrator, Nikkolas is focused on creating captivating art that can spark important conversations around social justice in today's world and inspire meaningful change. Nikkolas Smith is a Houston, Texas-born Artivist, picture book author, and Hollywood film illustrator. With powerful verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith, Born on the Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the origins of American identity.ĪBOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR (will be the one signing!) She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders.īut before that, they had a home, a land, a language. The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson.Ī young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. This book is being sold in conjunction with a virtual book event hosted by the L.A.
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