Clint Smith
He is also the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book How the Word Is Passed. He is the host of the Crash Course Black American History YouTube series.
-
![]()
Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty When Soccer Was an American Afterthought
In a 1979 Atlantic article titled “Sportspeak,” soccer warranted only one sentence.
-
![]()
Win McNamee / Getty Arlington’s Civil War Legacy Is Finally Laid to Rest
A memorial tainted with Lost Cause mythology has at last been purged from the national cemetery. If only national memory were so easily resolved.
-
![]()
Matt Huynh Donald Trump vs. American History
He has promised to impose his harmful, erroneous claims on school curricula in a second term.
-
![]()
Illustration by Matt Williams The Man Who Became Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own achievements.
-
![]()
Brad Smith / Getty The Two Players Who Tell the Story of U.S. Women’s Soccer
Megan Rapinoe represents the national team’s legacy; Alyssa Thompson, its future.
-
![]()
Sean Gallup / Getty Radio Atlantic: How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
What can memorials to tragedy in Germany tell Americans about how to remember slavery in the U.S.?
-
![]()
Photo-Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … The Gun
-
![]()
Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic; NYPL Nomenclature
-
![]()
Joseph Prezioso / AFP / Getty Tyre Nichols Wanted to Capture the Sunset
The 29-year-old deserved more chances to observe life’s ordinary miracles.
-
![]()
Juan Mabromata / AFP / Getty The Joy of Morocco
The Moroccan team may have lost its semifinal World Cup game, but it still made history.
-
![]()
Jean Catuffe / Getty Images The Absurd Talent of Kylian Mbappé
The French star player has already proved that he’s one of the best in the history of the game.
-
![]()
Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty What We Ask of Black American Athletes
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
-
![]()
Tim Nwachukwu / Getty A Kid’s-Eye View of the U.S. vs. ‘Whales’
Holiday-season play makes this World Cup a family affair.
-
![]()
Courtesy Clint Smith Radio Atlantic: For Love of the Game
In this episode of Radio Atlantic, the staff writer Clint Smith talks about the complicated feelings he has for soccer, and which teams and players shaped his love of the sport.
-
![]()
Erik Carter / The Atlantic; courtesy of Clint … How to Cheer for America
When I watch the World Cup, I’m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be.
-
![]()
Marc Wilson for The Atlantic Monuments to the Unthinkable
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
-
![]()
Lambert / Getty What a Racist Slur Does to the Body
I cannot hear that word, used in that way, without thinking about violence.
-
![]()
Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic No Parent Should Have to Live Like This
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
-
![]()
Zohra Bensemra / Reuters Senegal’s Soccer Victory Is So Much More Than a Soccer Victory
The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.
-
![]()
Joakim Eskildsen Close to Home
What a photographer found when he trained his camera on his own family
