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Punching the Air: Ibi Zoboi's 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech

Firstly, I always have to thank my co-author, Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam, for extending such warmth and grace throughout our process of drafting, revising, publishing, and promoting Punching the Air, a story inspired by Yusef’s experiences as a wrongfully incarcerated teen. We can never truly understand Yusef’s journey. However,...
      

Punching the Air: Yusef Salaam's 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech

Hello everyone, my name is Dr. Yusef Salaam, member of the Exonerated Five, and co-author of Punching the Air, alongside my friend Ibi Zoboi. I’d like to thank each person who has taken the time to engage with this story. I hope that it gives you a better understanding of...
      

Punching the Air: Omar T. Pasha's 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech

I’m very honored and humbled to have played a part in the creation of this book. I’m an admirer of both authors, Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, for their work and life story, respectively. I’d like to thank them both, as well as Alison Donalty...
      

BGHB 2021: Punching the Air

Fiction and Poetry week continues in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Nicholl Denice Montgomery introduces the 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Book Punching the Air:   The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to authors Ibi...
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