Smith visits historical sites in the American South, New York City, and Dakar, Senegal, to assess how the sites deal with the topic of slavery. He can be found on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is a narrative nonfiction text written by Clint Smith and published in 2021 by Little, Brown, and Company. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History.Ĭlint received his B.A. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where he was named the Christine D. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. He is a former National Poetry Slam champion and a recipient of the Jerome J. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere.
Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation.
He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.Ĭlint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. He is also the author of two books of poetry, the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. 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, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021.
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