After 17 years without a federal execution in the United States, the Trump administration has gone on what can only be called a killing spree.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, January 15, 2021
How The Word Is Passed is named one of the anticipated books of 2021 by Buzzfeed.
By Arianna Rebolini and Tomi Obaro
Buzzfeed, January 13, 2021
How The Word Is Passed is named one of the anticipated books of the first-half of 2021 by The Millions.
By The Millions Editor
The Millions, January 11, 2021
An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we actually have been.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, January 8, 2021
For those who remember the history of disenfranchisement, what happened in Georgia was especially poignant.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, January 7, 2021
Clint reflects on growing up surrounded by Confederate monuments and shares the poem that inspired his forthcoming book, How the Word Is Passed, on NPR’s Fresh Air.
By Fresh Air
NPR, December 28, 2020
How The Word Is Passed is named one of the 21 most anticipated books of 2021 by TIME Magazine.
By Annabel Gutterman and Anna Purna Kambhampaty
Time, December 18, 2020
Editors at The Rumpus select How the Word Is Passed as one of the most anticipated books of 2021.
By The Rumpus
The Rumpus, December 11, 2020
The arc of history does not bend inevitably towards justice. Sometimes, Americans barely avoid disaster.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 22, 2020
The bodies of people in America’s prisons are counted in the design of our political infrastructure, but their voices are not.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, October 31, 2020
When I was young, the Superdome was full of joyful chaos. Then Katrina hit, and filled it with despair. Now the stands at the Saints games are hauntingly empty.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, October 18, 2020
How a visit to his birthplace helped me understand this moment of rage, reckoning, and possibility
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, September 2020 Issue
He brought King T’Challa to life in a way that transfixed the world and spoke uniquely to Black Americans.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, August 30, 2020
Amid the most profound social upheaval since the 1960s, these novelists, historians, poets, comedians and activists take a moment to look back to the literature.
Compiled by Lauren Christensen
New York Times, June 30, 2020
When the Movement for Black Lives began, I did not have children. Now the fight means more to me—coupled with fears that are even deeper.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, June 1, 2020