We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic
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Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic
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We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic
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Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
By: Clint Smith
The Atlantic
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
By: Clint Smith
The Atlantic
A review of Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship, by Dana A. Williams
By: Clint Smith
The Atlantic
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 29, 2022
Holiday-season play makes this World Cup a family affair.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 22, 2022
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 2022
When I watch the World Cup, I’m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 18, 2022
I cannot hear that word, used in that way, without thinking about violence.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, October 22, 2022
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, May 25, 2022
The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, March, 2022
What a photographer found when he trained his camera on his own family.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, March, 2022
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, February 2, 2022
The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 16, 2021
The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 14, 2021
I don’t know how long the power will be out in New Orleans. But I know more storms are coming.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, September 3, 2021