Clint Smith

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Writer at The Atlantic

Writer, @TheAtlantic. Author of Counting Descent, How the Word Is Passed, and Above Ground.

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Articles

Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Clint Smith

The skid steer’s hydraulic breaker rose up toward the sky, then plunged into the street below, rupturing the concrete and the yellow paint overlaying it. The jackhammer’s staccato thundered over the din of passing traffic. It was a Tuesday morning in March, and people walking by covered their ears. Others took out their phones to capture the destruction.
Trump Is Tearing Down History

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Clint Smith

The skid steer’s hydraulic breaker rose up toward the sky, then plunged into the street below, rupturing the concrete and the yellow paint overlaying it. The jackhammer’s staccato thundered over the din of passing traffic. It was a Tuesday morning in March, and people walking by covered their ears. Others took out their phones to capture the destruction.
Smith blazes own trail as water resources engineering role model

2 months ago | asce.org | Clint Smith |Ben Walpole

By all accounts, Clint Smith is a very friendly person. Kind and generous; his quick, sarcastic wit delivered in an Alabama drawl. But nice as he is, don’t be mistaken. Smith is also a fighter – relentless in his drive to improve as a water resources engineer and stubborn in his stance to stand up for what he believes in. "Yeah, it’s a trail," Smith said. "It’s forging your own path when the path isn’t seen.
How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family?

Oct 4, 2024 | msn.com | Clint Smith

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Thirty Years After the Genocide in Rwanda, Is Forgiveness Possible?

Oct 4, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Clint Smith

Listen1.0x0:0051:20Hussein Longolongo killed seven people during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; he oversaw the killing of nearly 200 others. He told me this on a warm March day in a courtyard in central Kigali, almost exactly 30 years later. I had come to Rwanda because I wanted to understand how the genocide is remembered—through the country’s official memorials as well as in the minds of victims. And I wanted to know how people like Longolongo look back on what they did.
Foley Juneteenth Program Explores The Narratives That Shape Our Understanding Of History

Jun 24, 2024 | mondaq.com | Clint Smith |Alexis Robertson

In celebration of Juneteenth, Foley & Lardner welcomed Clint Smith, staff writer at The Atlantic and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, for a firmwide virtual program on June 18.
Foley Juneteenth Program Explores the Narratives that Shape Our Understanding of History

Jun 20, 2024 | foley.com | Matt Kurnick |Clint Smith

In celebration of Juneteenth, Foley & Lardner welcomed Clint Smith, staff writer at The Atlantic and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, for a firmwide virtual program on June 18.
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Jun 19, 2024 | znetwork.org | Clint Smith |Amy Goodman

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, originally aired a day after President Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Jun 19, 2024 | znetwork.org | Greg Carr |Clint Smith

Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. Celebrate. But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism.
The Magic of Old-Growth Forests

Jun 16, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Clint Smith

Photograph by Mitch Epstein W hen I was a boy, I loved climbing the old oak trees in New Orleans City Park. I would hang from their branches and fling my legs into the air with unfettered delight. I would scoot my way up the trees’ twisting limbs until I was a dozen feet off the ground and could see the park with new eyes. These were the same trees my mother climbed as a young girl, and the same ones my own children climb when we travel back to my hometown to visit.