Remembering Toni Morrison
Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.
Clint Smith
Clint Smith is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. He is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (2016), and his debut nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed is forthcoming from Little, Brown.
The Sound and the Silence of Toni Morrison
The Nobel laureate, who died this week, made the world bigger for all of us.
By Clint Smith
Wake Up, Mr. West!
How Kanye's ignorant comments fortify the most pernicious lies of white supremacy.
By Clint Smith
Affirmative Action as Reparations
For affirmative action to survive, we need to rethink what it is meant to do and who it is meant to serve.
By Clint Smith
The Young Black Activists Targeting New Orleans’s Confederate Monuments
The group Take ‘Em Down NOLA has an ambitious goal—to rid the city of all its tributes to slavery’s defenders.
