Clint Smith

The Library of Congress National Book Festival will return to Washington this year over Labor Day weekend with more than 120 writers as well as book signings, talks, readings, live performances, and audiobook events. This year’s festival, which is free and will take place Saturday, September 3, at the Walter...

Loyalty is honored to welcome Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Clint Smith for How to Raise An Antiracist! This live, in-person event will take place at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, located at 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910. This is a ticketed event and you must purchase a ticket to attend. Each ticket includes a signed copy of How to Raise an Antiracist, and additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. Masks required and proof of vaccination OR negative Covid PCR test (within 72 hrs) are required. You can review AFI Silver Theatre's health and safety protocols here. On June 14, Dr. Kendi will also publish Goodnight Racism (Kokila), a modern bedtime classic illustrated by Cbabi Bayoc that gives children the language to dream of a better world.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center held its first back-in-person Big Tent Jubilee fundraiser since the COVID-19 pandemic to celebrate this year’s Stowe Prize winner, Dr. Clint Smith, for his No. 1 New York Times best selling book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America.” The Stowe Prize is awarded biennially “to honor the work of a contemporary writer ...

Charleston, S.C. -- The International African American Museum will sponsor a virtual Fireside Chat event with author Clint Smith in honor of International Museum Day on May 18, 2022. Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, will share stories from his book and experiences traveling internationally.

Smith’s most recent book earned the number one spot on the New York Times Best Seller List, as well as the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. The International African American Museum will talk with Smith about his experience traveling to various historic sites and monuments — all of which are reckoning with their history of slavery. With Dr. Bernard.

One Book One Northwestern announced Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” as its 2022-23 academic year selection Monday. Smith’s novel focuses on landmarks and monuments around the country to examine how slavery has shaped large parts of...

This event is free and open to the public and media. WHAT: New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith will speak on the American educational system and its teaching of slavery during a fireside chat hosted by Texas Tech University. WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday (April 15) WHERE: Allen Theatre, Student...

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has selected Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” as the 2022-2023 Go Big Read book. “How the Word Is Passed,” which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller, illustrates how some...

Middle Tennessee State University virtually hosted New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith to discuss how the history of slavery is taught in the American south. He also discussed the material in his #1 New York Times bestseller, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.”

Clint Smith is on top of the world. No, of course, Smith is not actually sitting on the pinnacle of the celestial body we call earth. Still, in that metaphorical, abstract, feel-good sort of way, he is on top of the world. Last June, his book How the Word is Passed was on top of The New York Times Best Seller’s List – #1 in non-fiction. And in the literary world, that is pretty much the same thing.

Hazlitt talked history and race with Clint Smith. The CLMP offered a close look at the work being done by Tupelo Press. At Tor.com, Trisha Low delved into Lee Mandelo’s Summer Sons. The Quietus delved into the new album from Loop. Ryan Walsh talked books and music at Aquarium...

(New Orleans - March 8, 2022) The Loyola University New Orleans School of Communication and Design will host a conversation and book signing with scholar and New York Times best-selling author Clint Smith on Friday, March 11 at 4 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium, 6363 St. Charles Ave. The conversation will be moderated by award-winning journalist Will Sutton, a columnist with The New Orleans Times-Picayune/The Advocate and professor of journalism at Loyola. The event is free and open to the public.

Is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a poet, and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America. On Thursday, Feb. 24, “How the Word is Passed: A Conversation with Clint Smith” will be presented in a remote format as the keynote address of this year’s Niebuhr Center Teach-In at Elmhurst University.

On Feb. 17, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will host a virtual discussion with Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, and Johns Hopkins historian Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson. Smith and Johnson...

In a virtual Martin Luther King Jr. day event, author Clint Smith spoke about finding that many people have a complex relationship with a more honest telling of America’s racial history that they have not been told. Sometimes the stories they first learned in school make them unwilling to accept empirical evidence that contradicts their beliefs.

Join us for the 47th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day lecture with Clint Smith, author of the New York Times best-seller, How the World Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America. In a deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and...

Today's interviews are about transporting you to different places. The first is with cousins Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes who wrote a children's book, Dream Street, about the neighborhood where they grew up in Roxbury, Mass. They told NPR's Scott Simon that the characters in the book were inspired by people in their lives. Our next interview is with writer Clint Smith, who traveled to different locations across the country for his book on slavery, How the Word is Passed. He told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly he wanted to talk about places that still exist because slavery wasn't that long ago.

Earlier this year, host Ali Muldrow interviewed poet and journalist Clint Smith about his new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. Since then, How the Word is Passed was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and named one of the 10 Best Books of 2021 by the New York Times.

Author, activist, and poet Clint Smith is coming to Lawrence for a free show at Liberty Hall on Dec. 6. The event is presented in partnership with the Hall Center & Lawrence Arts Center, in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit Richard Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation. Tickets for the evening with...