Clint shares a lesson about the Little Rock Nine, the Greensboro Four, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Freedom Riders.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, April 23, 2022
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 72nd annual Hillman Prizes for journalism and recognized Clint Smith for his book about visiting historical sites to investigate how slavery and the Civil War are memorialized and taught.
By Sidney Hillman Foundation
Sidney Hillman Foundation, April 19, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about perhaps the best-known leader in the Civil Rights Era, Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, April 9, 2022
Anitra D. Brown describes Clint Smith’s journey home to the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University where he discusses his book, How the Word Is Passed.
By Anitra D. Brown
The New Orleans Tribune, March 31, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about how boycott leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr were household names and the Civil Rights movements was on the national stage.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, March 25, 2022
How the Word Is Passed won the 2022 Stowe Prize.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beacher Stowe Center, March, 2022
How the Word Is Passed won the National Book Critics Circle prize for nonfiction.
By Alexandra Alter
New York Times, March 17, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the story of Emmett Till and the jarring images of his funeral shocked the nation and were a vital catalyst in turning the civil rights movement into a nationwide phenomenon.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, March 12, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about how the NAACP's legal defense fund (led by Thurgood Marshall at the time of the Brown Decision) pursued a strategy of bringing cases to court that would expand the civil rights of Black Americans.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, February 11, 2022
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the 2022 PEN America | John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Literary Awards Finalists.
By PEN America
PEN America, February 7, 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
Clint shares a lesson about Randolph, Bayard Rustin, the march they planned, and the movement it inspired. We'll also talk about how the dream of the 1941 march was ultimately deferred for more than 20 years.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, January 28, 2022
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of Reader’s 2022 Notable Books.
By Ninah Moore
RUSA, January 23, 2022
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the finalists for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
By Dorany Pineda
Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the experience of Black Americans in World War II. We'll look at the ways Black men and women served in the armed services during the war, and look at life on the homefront.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, January 15, 2022
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century.
By Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker
BBC, December 22, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about one of the most interesting minds of the time, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was an anthropologist by training, and spent much of her career studying and documenting the lives of Black people in the southern US.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, January 8, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 until the US entered World War II. This depression profoundly changed the US economy, and we'll focus on how the depression impacted Black Americans.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, December 11, 2021