How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2021 by BookPage.
By The BookPage
BookPage, December, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of 2021.
By Erin Kodicek
Amazon, November 16, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how post-war tension over jobs and civil rights and populations shifts like the Great Migration led white Americans to lash out.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, November 12, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how the Great Migration shaped 20th century America in countless ways.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, November 6, 2021
Clint is named as part of The Root’s Root 100, which is an annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.
By The Roots
The Roots, November 4, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the 10 best nonfiction books to gift literature lovers this holiday season.
By Boris Kachka
LA Times, November 4, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the origins of these Black women clubs and some of the notable women who drove this movement.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, October 29, 2021
In this interview, Clint Smith on being human, healing on a plantation, and the difference between Jefferson and Grant.
By Helena de Groot
Poetry Off The Shelf, October 26, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the best history books of 2021 by Barnes & Noble.
By Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, November, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the best books of 2021 by Publisher’s Weekly.
By Publisher’s Weekly
Publisher’s Weekly, November, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is reviewed by the Harvard Magazine and is described as “a powerful public history of slavery in America.”
By Drew Faust
Harvard Magazine, November, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois who were searching for ways to think about how and where Black Americans would fit into a post-slavery society.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, October 23, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions was the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, which set the precedent that segregating people by race was acceptable.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, October 15, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the life story of journalist, orator, teacher, suffragette, and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, October 8, 2021
In an interview with CNN, Clint discusses the myths of about slavery that still hold America captive and his book How the Word Is Passed.
By John Blake
CNN, October 2, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the Reconstruction amendments, the Freedman's Bureau, and the election of 1876, among other things.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, September 24, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how Black people fought and participated in the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, and lots more.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, September 17, 2021
How the Word Is Passed is named to the longlist of the National Book Awards for nonfiction.
By National Book Foundation
National Book Foundation, September, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about one of the most famous writers, orators, and advocates of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, September 10, 2021