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  1. www.clintsmithiii.comClint Smith

    Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021.

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      Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. His first...

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      Clint Smith Latest news. The Micro Podcast: Zaborowske x...

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      NPR's Here & Now, October 2017, "Why James Baldwin's 'A Talk...

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      Takoma Park, MD | May 16th | 7:00PM ET | Nicole Chung in...

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      Clint Smith CONTACT. For speaking and event related...

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      Clint’s (Mostly) Monthly Newsletter. Updates on what I’m...

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      A remarkable new poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1...

    • How The Word Is Passed

      “Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed is a book for this...

  2. Jun 1, 2021 · In Clint Smith’s upcoming book “How The Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits a handful of public history locations across the country—from the Monticello plantation to Houston, Texas—in order to reach a reckoning about history and how it’s told and passed (he also visits Senegal in the end).

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  3. Aug 27, 2021 · Starting in 2017, the start of the Trump era, he visited eight places in the United States, and one location abroad to, as he put it, “understand how each reckons with its relationship to the...

  4. Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller, How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times.

  5. “Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed is a book for this moment. At once a deeply researched history of American slavery and a very contemporary look at the grim legacy of its manifold cruelties (and how they are memorialized in plain sight), every high school senior in the country should have a copy of How the Word is Passed , the better ...

  6. Dec 27, 2022 · The author, Clint Smith, delves into the intricacies of America's relationship with its past, particularly its deep-rooted history of slavery. With meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Smith takes readers on a journey across various sites in the United States, exploring how they reckon with their ties to slavery.

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  8. Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. His first full-length collection of poetry, Counting Descent, won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.