Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when she recorded Derek Chauvin and other officers restraining Floyd on the ground. The cell phone footage helped change the narrative surrounding Floyd's death and sparked a wave of protests around the world.
Colson Whitehead won in fiction; Lynn Nottage in drama and Tyehimba Jess in poetry. Hisham Matar, who is of Libyan descent, won for biography or autobiography.