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Clint Smith is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent and the nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed.

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August 7, 2019

Ryu Spaeth, Clint Smith, Mychal Denzel Smith , Nell Irvin Painter, Jo Livingstone

Remembering Toni Morrison

Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.

August 6, 2019

The Sound and the Silence of Toni Morrison

The Nobel laureate, who died this week, made the world bigger for all of us.

May 3, 2018

Wake Up, Mr. West!

How Kanye's ignorant comments fortify the most pernicious lies of white supremacy.

September 5, 2017

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.

May 18, 2017

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.