CHAUTAUQUA: Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed," Annual Black History Month Keynote
Clint Smith
"How the Word Is Passed"
Thurs. Feb. 10, 7:30 pm
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhwY7O9n968
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, as well as the poetry collection, Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.
Clint Smith has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art for Justice Fund, Cave Canem and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.
Event Date: February 10 7:30 PM Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhwY7O9n968 Cost: Free
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