All the Backlist! May 7, 2021

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	Here listening to all the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.5	I'm Tears of Price coming to you from Bookrite.
0:18.2	This is episode 309.5, and this week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about
0:23.3	two great YA books that feature intergenerational family stories.
0:27.4	But first, let's hear from our sponsor.
0:30.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Norton Young Readers.
0:35.0	October 16th marks the 50th anniversary of Tommy Smith's iconic and groundbreaking
0:39.4	protest.
0:40.4	In 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommy Smith and his teammate, John Carlos, stood
0:45.7	on the podium in black socks and black gloves, and raised their fists to protest racial
0:50.3	injustice towards black people in America.
0:52.8	Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, receive death threats, face ostracism and
0:56.7	blackballing in their sport, and in his first ever graphic novel, memoir, Tommy Smith
1:01.6	looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas as a son of a sharecropper, his
1:05.7	genital experiences with segregation and vicious racism, and his record-breaking athletic
1:10.5	career.
1:11.5	Victory stand paints a stirring portrait of an iconic, still timely moment in Olympic
1:16.1	history that showed the world we had to be seen because we were not being heard.
1:21.1	Take a victory stand by Tommy Smith and Derek Barnes, illustrated by The Wood on
1:25.8	Yabwele, and thanks again to Norton Young Readers for sponsoring this episode.
1:34.4	Today's episode is brought to you by Source Book's Fire.
1:37.9	So it is the season of the witch, and I have a witchy tale for you.
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