Clint Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was honored by GQ as one of the 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century. He is also the author of the acclaimed poetry collections Counting Descent and Above Ground, a New York Times bestseller. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Clint is a former high school English teacher. His two TED Talks, “The Danger of Silence,” and “How to Raise a Black Son in America,” have been collectively viewed millions of times. He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History.

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