Clint Smith Archive
The Embodied Narrator in How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith’s new book is an examination of memory through an examination of sites that represent our country’s collective memory of slavery. He makes an important and effective call for us to examine how we remember our past, and how central our historical memory is to our existence today.
Reading New Orleans Writers on Hurricanes and Home
When Hurricane Ida struck New Orleans, I was one of the lucky ones with family outside of the city that I could stay with to ride out the aftermath of the storm, when the poor infrastructure and the ways the powerful have ripped off the people comes to light