In partnership with Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Centers at Mt. Holyoke College and Spelman College, and with community partners, the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights and the Andre Young Center for Global Leadership of Atlanta, the Sewanee Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center is pleased to announce a virtual collaboration, A Conversation with Clint Smith, from 6–7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 16, National Day of Racial Healing.

Smith is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, the New York Times bestselling collection “Above Ground and 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. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

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. He is a former National Poetry Slam champion and a recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.

Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History.

Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans, he lives in Maryland with his wife and two children.

To attend virtually, please register at <https://mtholyoke.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oNBEejyqS2uXIrJ3_8Qs7Q#/registration;. You may also join us in Naylor Auditorium, 6–7 p.m. CST, for an in-person “Viewing Party” with light refreshments.