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Clint Smith Shows On This Moment
Clint Smith delivers his talk, “How To Elevate A Black Son In The united states,” at TED2015 – Truth and Dare.
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Clint Smith delivers his talk, “How To Elevate A Black Son In The united states,” at TED2015 – Truth and Dare.
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About The Episode
The killing of George Floyd by a police officer has sparked massive protests nationwide. This hour, creator and student Clint Smith shows on this moment, thru conversation, letters, and poetry.
About Clint Smith
Clint Smith is a creator, poet, teacher, and Emerson Fellow at New The united states.
He’s the creator of the poetry sequence, Counting Descent, which used to be printed in 2016. His writing has been printed in The New Yorker, The New York Times Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Poetry Journal, The Paris Evaluation, the Harvard Tutorial Evaluation, amongst others. His most most unique portion, “Turning into a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Subject,” used to be printed in The Atlantic earlier this week. His drawing near near non-fiction e book, How The Phrase Is Handed, explores how numerous sites across the nation reckon with, or fail to reckon with, their relationship to the history of slavery. This might possibly well even be printed next year.
Smith’s two TED Talks, “The Hazard of Silence” and “The answer to Elevate a Black Son in The united states,” gather collectively been considered greater than seven million times. The latter used to be featured on the TED Radio Hour episode, “The Consequences of Racism.”
Previously, Clint Smith taught high college English in Prince George’s County, Maryland. He currently teaches writing and literature in the D.C. Central Detention Facility.
He got his B.A. from Davidson Faculty and his Ph.D. from Harvard College, where he studied the sociology of education.
