Chautauqua Lecture Videos
Title
How the Word is Passed [Video]
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and 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 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.
Clint is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. His two TED Talks, “The Danger of Silence” and “How to Raise a Black Son in America,” collectively have been viewed more than 9 million times.
National Black History Month Keynote Address
Part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series: Wayfinding (2021-2022)
Recommended Citation
Smith, Clint, "How the Word is Passed [Video]" (2022). Chautauqua Lecture Videos. 31.
https://encompass.eku.edu/chautauquavideos/31
Copyright
Copyright 2022 Clint Smith
Comments
Per contract agreement with the speaker, this video will be available to current EKU students, faculty, and staff through February 24, 2022.