Barnard Sims, pen named: Barnard the Barber is the (2025) Georgia Independent Authors Association’s Author of the Year Winner for Nonfiction/Self-Help & Winner of the Best Book Cover for:

THE SOUTHERN AWAKENING:

“A Black Man’s Guide to Liberating the Rural South”.

Barnard is the nonprofit founder of Reach One Chess, Inc. advocation to derail the “school to prison pipeline”. Barnard is also an actor, who’s been in a civil rights film with the late Congressman John Lewis and most recently, in the movie “Till” produced by EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg.